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...businessman knows, a cardinal tenet of New and Fair Deal gospel was that a big company was probably bad, i.e., it was tarred with monopolistic sin. Many an economist, both liberal and conservative, went along with this view, vigorously expounded in 1934 by Louis D. Brandeis in The Curse of Bigness. But last week, when 4,000 members of ten economic and statistical societies gathered in Washington for their annual meeting, the economists surprised one another by their new and friendly view of big business and their calmer attitude toward monopoly. Said Yale's Assistant Professor G. Warren Nutter...
...scene, Jane, scantily dressed, does a dance that the Johnston Office regards as "overly suggestive." Even Jane said later that she disapproved of the scene. Last week Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter of St. Louis forbade Catholics in his archdiocese to see the picture "under penalty of mortal sin...
...consists in being a man incapable of functioning as a man. Unlike Aguado, who torments himself, Carmen has found serenity in "the very hugeness of her misfortune." She is in love with a mystic who has renounced her because he believes that "to be happy now is a tremendous sin," and she knows she will never see him again...
...education for privacy . . . there is equally urgent need for ... the establishment and maintenance of moral harmony. From the days of primitive religion, through Greek tragedy, the Christian epic of sin and salvation, and modern psychology . . . there runs the theme of the un easy conscience. The dramatic specter of moral guilt is the principal character in many of the greatest creations of literary genius. No matter what the learned explanation, the psychological state is one of inner moral disharmony ... It is a private affliction and must be cured privately ... A vision of the good life the spirit must have; for devoid...
FEBRUARY-Property Right. In Lewes, England, dismissing assault charges against Norman Hyde, who had slugged a fellow pub patron for trying to down his beer, a judge ruled that "drinking another man's beer is the unforgivable sin...