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...Blow. Two years ago, Symonds made a seemingly pointless request: he asked FPC for the whole New England market. The FPC, having already decided the case, threw his plea out without a hearing. Symonds went to court, charging that FPC's action denied him due process of law. Cheerfully, he explained his action: "They [Algonquin] delayed us for two years . . . and made all the trouble they could. I'm just vindictive enough to want to do the same thing to them...
This sounds like the Existentialist answer to the modern dilemma-an answer which assumes that all questions of faith are pointless and only man's pride and courage are of value. It is an answer that would have left Kafka as restless as before and convinced Dostoevsky that the Nihilists had won the day. But Author Buzzati, no Existentialist himself, presents it as a universal truth, a faith to die for; and so, though The Tartar Steppe suffers from being a copy of The Castle, it gains from the gravity and human sympathy with which it is written. Like...
...Pointless Scoreboard. No matter how the Russians figured it-their way (493-484½) or the "regular" unofficial...
...evil that all these men did has lived after them, and yet Pennsylvania probably made more economic and social progress than any other part of the world, before or since. Was this in spite of the politicians or was there some connection between the apparently pointless genius of a Penrose and the lusty growth of his state...
...Sure enough, she falls again, and thinks she has stripped her moral gears for keeps. At this logical jumping-off place for a French bedroom farce, Novelist Vincent Sheean, writing with perfect seriousness, has his heroine leap into Indian mysticism. In Sheean's handling, it is as crashingly pointless as a dive into an empty swimming pool...