Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caused by sunspots, although Dun's Review, in all seriousness, devoted 13 columns to a discussion of sunspots and business activity in its first postmortem issue. It was caused partly by 1) the old fact that stock prices had generally risen far out of line with actual and visible profits, and 2) the new fact that too many people expected a recession, as the bastard result of full employment, high wages and too-high prices. Never had a coming slump been given such loud and passionate advance advertising...
...Republican-inspired confirmation was followed immediately by a bipartisan move to call Marshall before a joint session for a foreign policy review...
...proving my point. The Christmas issue is a hodge-podge collection of tripe--cynically designed to startle Harvard by exposing the fact that there is no Santa Claus, a really novel idea. The Lampoon's dearth of ideas is demonstrated by their choice of material for the review column, "As Lampy Sees Them." They fall back on a pair of antique Fredrick March sagas, that no one is interested in, and write a review that is worse than the pictures something commonly thought impossible...
...Your review, in verse, of Dali's Macbeth [TIME, Dec. 9] is so clever that I should like to add the original manuscript (or autographed typescript) to our collection...
...will be commander in chief of all land, sea and air forces. He may promulgate laws when countersigned by the President of the Executive Yuan, and he will have power to conclude treaties, declare war, negotiate peace, declare martial law, and exercise emergency powers. The Legislative Yuan may review these acts within a month...