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Author Norris is a prolific rather than a pretty writer, a searcher for the genteel rather than the just word. For "pimple" he writes "eruption"; for "naked," "nude"; for "died," "expired...
Though economists now have the floor and philosophers are, as Philosopher Ortega y Gasset admits, anything today rather than philosophers, this penetrating analysis of the world's state is not economic. No fatalist, Ortega y Gasset, searcher for the truth about Western civilization, believes that something may still be done with the truth when it is found. A yea-saver, his gloomiest proph ecy is still hopeful in a sardonic Spanish way: ''Before long there will be heard throughout the planet a formidable cry, rising like the howling of innumerable dogs to the stars, asking for someone or some thing...
...roundly applauded speaker Charles Franklin Kettering, long, jointed head of General Motors Corp. Obscure to the general public, Re searcher Kettering deserves fame as inventor of the self-starter (first used Cadillac), as an important contributor the perfection of Duco, Ethyl Frigidaire. Surrounded at home and work by strange mechanical devices simplify life.* Mr. Kettering has that the chief block to progress is the stag nancy of human minds. Less diabolic it first sounds is his theory that and dissatisfaction are the best forces for improvement and progress. week he reiterated his credo that is "a method of keeping everybody...
Hunting for Col. P. H. Fawcett, who disappeared in the Matto Grosso four years ago, has become almost a profession in itself. Alexander Siemel, now at the southwestern edge of the great forest, was a onetime Fawcett searcher. His onetime companions in the jungle were Mamerto Urriolagoitia. Bolivian consul general at London, and Julian Duguid (Green Hell). As soon as Consul Urriolagoitia gets his vacation from London this summer he will join Author Duguid for another search of the forest...
Without once mentioning His name (Lawrence calls Him simply "the man who died") this anti Christian searcher after Christ tells what might have happened to Jesus if He did not really die on the cross. As with George Moore's hero in The Brook Kerith, the agony of the crucifixion and the coma of the burial stripped the Man of his Messiahship. Moore's hero in his revulsion thought he had been wrong: Lawrence's, that his mission was finished. Lawrence's Man showed himself to his disciples but would have nothing more to do with...