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...critics, Mr. Hoover is the advance guard of the police state," says Kraft in Commentary's February issue. "To boosters, he is the modern knight errant. For better or worse, he is made to cast a shadow larger than life." To Kraft, who sees him in somewhat sharper focus, "Hoover is in the most literal sense the 'G-Man'-the Government man par excellence. He is the supreme example of the successful civil servant-the compleat bureaucrat...
...journalist who studies the flow of news on a thoughtful, long-range basis, nearly every week brings a new appreciation of sharp contrast in the pattern of events. Seldom has the sense of contrast been sharper than in two of the principal subjects dealt with in this issue of TIME...
...even sharper attack on old-fashioned nationalism came from Political Theorist Hans Morgenthau, who pointed out "the discrepancy between our cerebral modes of thought and action and the unprecedented novelty of the circumstances in which we now live. The present age has made the idea of the nation-state as obsolete as feudalism was made obsolete 200 years ago by the invention of the steam engine. We must face the atomic age with a transformation of the whole way our government thinks and acts." In rejoinder, Protestant Theologian Paul Ramsey of Princeton warned that immediate abandonment of the nation concept...
Snowmobiles offer more than utility service. They are capable of speeds up to 35 m.p.h., and a skillful driver can skitter and skid them through the turns of a slalom course. Versatile body English is needed on the sharper curves, and in case of a spill the engine is equipped with a deadman throttle that shuts it off and keeps the doodlebug from roaring off empty down the hill. Snowmobile rallies will be held this month in Tuftonboro, N.H., Tomahawk, Wis., Forest Lake, Minn., Skowhegan, Me., and Boonville, N.Y., with prizes for slalom racing, hill climbing, speed runs and cross...
...Line & Stencil. For much of his chameleon career, Picasso regarded graphics as another kind of drawing, but the pure lines contrasting with hard planes of his late linoleum cuts bring out his simplification of nature in a sharper manner than his oils. Matisse found that his late, swimming arabesques could be better executed by stencils than by brush bristles. Miro learned that his love of texture was readily brought out by the relief in paper of etching. In Chagall's 13 editions on the Arabian Nights, he found that colors of lithography achieved a brazen Oriental romance that oils would...