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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gentlemen & Scholars. If U.S. intellectuals ever had a right to feel oppressed, says Lipset, it was in the late 19th century, when Henry Adams eloquently brooded over the rise of the so-called "robber barons." The anti-intellectualism of that day was the cold contempt of unlettered men (whose scions later gave millions to universities). The result-since the U.S. lacked a conservative tradition -was to fill intellectuals, from Wilson through Roosevelt, with liberal reformist zeal. But the anti-intellectualism of today is no longer contempt for a low-status group. It is more likely fear of a high-status...
Biggest question in prevention today is how the rise in lung cancer-virtually confined to heavy-smoking men-can be checked and reversed. Rod Heller, bureaucrat and son of a tobacco-growing state (although he has never smoked), has weighed all the conflicting evidence and arrived at a forthright conclusion: "Statistical evidence, supported by laboratory findings, has shown that excessive cigarette smoking can be a cause of lung cancer, and that the greater the consumption of cigarettes, the greater the risk." Practical Dr. Heller sees little prospect of changing U.S. smoking habits, pins his hopes for lung-cancer prevention...
...average factory work week in June rose to 40.6 hours, pushing average weekly factory earnings to a new record of $90.54 at mid-June. The rise reflected increased production demands as industrial output hit a new high for the fourth straight month, rising two points to the seasonally adjusted peak of 155% of the 1947-49 average. The rise was spurred by continued increase in output of autos, household durable goods and most types of business equipment...
...would still be there as a clamoring market for steel once a strike was over. Steelmen also counted on the fact that U.S. steelworkers, already the highest paid of the Big Three unions, are aware that a wage-and-price boost might bring more inflation to nullify a pay rise, give a boost to foreign competition, and eventually cost jobs in the mills. The most remarkable point of a new Gallup poll out this week is not that 51% of those polled said that steelworkers should get no pay raise, but that 40% of the families of union members felt...
...Auden during a leaden hour of World War II, "is man's real condition." Nearly two decades later, the saga of Soviet Poet Boris (Doctor Zhivago) Pasternak suggests that the century's loneliest crowd consists of creative intellects behind Iron and .Bamboo Curtains. Even when these curtains rise briefly, as during the thaw that followed Stalin's death, they reveal strictly solitary singers. At one time or another, the authors represented in these two collections of protesting voices belonged to the chummy writers' cliques of Warsaw. Belgrade and other Red capitals. Yet most of their experiences...