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...smaller band of Nietzscheans led by Novelist Thomas Mann acclaimed the Nietzsche of Thus Spake Zarathustra, the prophet-poet who looked piercingly about his Victorian world and pronounced all its accepted truths a sham. But his sister zealously vaunted her status as the Nietzsche Archive's high priestess, fostered the myth she had largely created, lived to transmit her priestess' blessing to Mussolini and Hitler. Nietzsche, Hitler proclaimed, was "the pioneer of National Socialism...
Back in the Texas of the 1890s, when the pen was not always mightier than the six-shooter, Editor William Cowper Brann grew so bitter about sham and injustice that he longed for "a language whose words are coals of juniper-wood, whose sentences are woven with a warp of aspics' fangs and woof of fire." The language came so naturally that in three years of publishing in Waco, then a town of 25,000, he built a phenomenal worldwide circulation of 120,000 for his one-man monthly Iconoclast. It also tore Waco into feuding factions, got Brann...
...Nixon can rise to the occasion; that he has learned the perils-and emptiness-of fanatic partisanship. But no real choice remains. The deterioration of America's world position during these recent months of presidential absenteeism is a warning of worse storms ahead if the Presidency remains a sham office. It is our hope that President Eisenhower will see these truths. The issue is whether the U.S. is to have Richard Nixon as President or no President. We choose Nixon...
...prizes for its series exposing a Teamster-led conspiracy to take over Portland's rackets (TIME, April 8), the Portland Oregonian (circ. 232,338) sprouted a new Page One slogan: "Grand Slam of American Journalism." The Oregon Journal (181,210), which doggedly argued that there was more sham than slam to its competitor's exclusives, last week found much to savor when a jury acquitted Teamster Organizer Clyde Cardinal Crosby on charges of conspiracy to accept a bribe. Reason: Crosby had been charged with racketeering by Gambler Jim Elkins, who also led Oregonian Reporters William Lambert and Wallace...
...Stalin attempted to destroy the authority and power of the Soviet Communist Party by liquidating thousands of its leaders and tens of thousands of its minor functionaries. For 13 years there was no full meeting of the Central Committee and, according to Khrushchev himself, Politburo meetings were a sham. In its last years, the Stalin regime was a pure autocracy. Stalin ruled through a personal secretariat controlled by a "special sector" whose head was Malenkov. The famous names that ranked beside Stalin's in the Politburo and in the government ministries were those of privileged shop-window dummies...