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...blasphemy . . . His art had a feeling of his lasciviousness . . . The work of Gide from beginning to end is all orchestrated on a tone of ambiguous seduction . . ." It was a great pity, said L'Osservatore. "The gifts he possessed, both of interior intelligence and of rich poetry, render the condemnation all the more painful ... all the more necessary." ALBERTO MORAVIA, Italian novelist, 44, author of The Woman of Rome, Conjugal Love, The Conformist, etc. Said L'Osservatore Romano: "[Moravia] describes in detail obscene and immoral things . . . It is extremely painful that an author should show an almost exclusive interest...
Knives by the Carload. Keating, the son of an Austrian immigrant who became a successful tinsmith, got through Chicago's Armour Institute with twelve athletic letters and a cum laude in mechanical engineering. He thinks the best way to render his own products obsolete, and thus create new markets, is to keep improving his designs. He pays Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy $75,000 a year to think up new styles for handles, new color combinations, etc. As a result, in cutlery alone, he is now producing an average of 300,000 knives a week (ranging from...
...word stabilize. Said Chief Stabilizer Roger Putnam: "To preserve the value of the dollar." Price Boss Ellis Arnall : "To keep in a stable position or relatively in equilibrium or balance." Wage Board Chairman Nathan Feinsinger, after a peek at the dictionary: "A substance added to an explosive to render-it less liable to spontaneous decomposition...
Vice President Alben Barkley was still thinking about running, but insisted he hadn't made up his mind. Said he: "I'm not like the justice of the peace in Kentucky, who announced that he was taking the case under advisement and would render a decision in one week for the plaintiff...
...landscape and has detailed its attempts to further the cause of Chiang-kai Shek. The articles published so far lack the invective, the denunciatory tone, and the indignant cries of betrayal that one might expect in a treatment of so controversial a subject, and instead permits the facts to render their impression unadorned...