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...Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why." This is a full 2,000 years and many miles of Marx-marked thought away from Aristotle's "The good of man must be the end of the science of politics." But, though neither idealistic nor pious, the Primer's opening shocker is unquestionably as American and up-to-date as the word "realism...
...profound 54-page preface to Joseph and His Brothers (TIME, June 11, 1934), Mann said: "Very deep is the well of the past." Into this well, recorded history goes only a little way, and not truth, but mystery, lies in its fathomless depths. Yet the myths of man are pious abbreviations reaching far deeper than his factual knowledge of events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent but lesser similar...
...them distrust the Democratic Party, which for years has deprived the Negro of his right to vote in Atlanta while seeking his vote . . . in Harlem." But they have made economic gains under the New Deal; "they will not leave that party for vague assurances of future action expressed in pious platitudes. The Republican Party . . . should commit itself unequivocally and specifically to federal anti-poll tax and anti-lynching statutes...
...which led out under a mountain, was reopened. Four huge electric pumps were installed. With his own hand II Duce started the pumps (1928). A little less than three years later the water-logged galleys were raised. In 1940 Mussolini presented the venerable hulls, mounted on concrete, as a pious gift to Rome on her 2,695th birthday (April 21). On the last day of May at lovely Lake Nemi the defeated Nazis paused in their flight from the U.S. Fifth Army long enough to give themselves a little pleasure. With fire they destroyed forever the galleys of Caligula...
...West Virginia, bumptious Democrat Rush Holt, onetime "Boy Senator," and pious, poker-playing Republican R. J. Funkhouser, millionaire manufacturer of "America's No. i Heel" (TIME, May 8), both lost to less publicized candidates for the gubernatorial nominations...