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...Axis-controlled Spain to the north, Italian guns just across the Straits at Ceuta, the remains of the still equivocal French Fleet in Toulon. The Western Fleet spent most of the time on the alert, continually scouting for trouble. But all the time it was just waiting for a ripe time to go on the offensive. Last week the ripeness was there, and the Western Fleet harvested an audacious victory...
Last week the theatre's devotees had themselves a sentimentally huge half hour -an NBC Blue Network program celebrating Ethel's 40th anniversary as a star and the ripe, mature job of warming Broadway audiences she is now doing in The Corn Is Green. There were tributes from Producers Arthur Hopkins and Herman Shumlin, Helen Hayes, Louis B. Mayer, Alexander Woollcott, and it was the first radio program to include Ethel and both the Brothers Barrymore...
Fearing went to New York from his home town of Chicago in 1924-a time when life in the U. S. metropolis was ripe for the mirroring his style could give it. Boom-time big talk was growing louder and more insistent; while an implacable depression was creeping into the consciousness of ordinary citizens. Such a howling opposition between appearance and reality was poison for Fearing's equanimity, but meat for his pen. He became one of Bohemia's most egregious bottle-men (figuring in at least three now half' forgotten novels), and developed a gin-clear...
...Wild Chicago, When the Time Is Ripe for Ruin's deeds, When constitutions, courts and laws Go down midst crashing creeds, Lift up your weak and guilty hands From out the wreck of states, And as the crumbling towers fall down, Write ALTGELD on your gates! Thus adjured the outraged New York Sun in 1893. Called anarchist (for freeing three of the Haymarket rioters) and blamed for the great Pullman strike was Illinois' liberal Governor John Peter Altgeld. Years afterwards Poet Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem about him (The Eagle That Is Forgotten}, Biographer Carl Sandburg called...
Reiser's book is lucid, ambitious, profound. It was inspired by science's discovery of more things in heaven & earth than were dreamt of in former philosophies. "The time is ripe for a new philosophy," says Philosopher Reiser, and he hopes its main characteristics will be 1) a non-Aristotelian logic, 2) a theory of emergent evolution...