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Professor Smithies believes Britain can reap most of the devaluation benefits, but he isn't quite sure how much good will result. "We can't be certain Britain will be economically independent of the United States when the Marshall Plan ends in 1952," Smithies says, "but the important thing is that progress can now be made...
...will carry conviction unless the right foundation in British policy is laid for offsetting certain dangers." Among the dangers the professor fears are (first) the possible upward spiral of British prices and wages and (second) poor management in the repayment of Britain's wartime sterling liabilities which might thus result in the funnelling up ECA aid through the British economy to outside recipients...
...called "worse than worthless." What Sainte-Beuve called "the Bible of humanity," and Dostoevsky "the greatest utterance of the human mind," often seems little more than a scrambled dictionary of archaic and occasionally gamy slang. A few pages of it are about all most readers can stand. As a result, the Knight of the Mournful Countenance is handed down by hearsay as nothing more than the original nut who tilted at windmills, and Miguel de Cervantes as a long-winded sort of Thorne Smith of the Renaissance...
...rendering of Don Quixote, Putnam says: "I have striven to avoid . . . an antiquated style and vocabulary and . . . any modernism that would . . . savor of flippancy." He is diffident about the result ("though I think I do these translations better as I grow older"), but need not be: it is one of the triumphs of the translator's trade...
Recent practice injuries to veteran fullback Mike Scully and forwards Charlie Weiss and Ben Goldstein "just haven't come around." as Munro says. Bruce had been hoping this trio would be in better shape by now than it is. As a result, he plans to "squeak through" today with second-stringers in the lineup and at least save his starters for the rest of the season...