Word: softener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of class struggle was certainly not original with Marx. What he did was rewrite history with class struggle in the center. Superficially, it might seem that the abundance of goods The Machine could produce would soften the class struggle; Marx said that this very possibility of abundance would sharpen class struggle, that the capitalists would use the state's police power, its war-making power and all other means to prevent glutted markets, i.e., abundance. It followed that the workers had to seize the state by revolution (they would never get it any other...
...Bernard Baruch, who recently recommended far-reaching controls (TIME, Jan. 26), begged off from testifying before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee until he had time for another look around. He wired Committee Chairman Charles Tobey: "There is evidence, superficial perhaps, but existing, that commodities show a tendency to soften. Were that to come about, the need for control would be less pressing...
Spring even appeared to soften the heart of Argentine economic czar Miguel Miranda. Last week Miranda closed a deal with a U.S. Army mission for the sale of 28,110 tons of Argentine corn at the reasonable price of $104 a ton ($2.66 a bushel). He also announced that Argentina, if it could get oil and other transportation necessities, would be happy to sell all grains at the "world price." No one knew exactly what the "world price" was, but the U.S. hoped it would be less than the exorbitant $5.90 a bushel Argentina has been getting from hungry Europe...
...cross between cackle and a whistle, and performers on the vocal high wire and trapeze are utterly devoid of musical interest to me." O'Connell attacks Lily ("The Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with a waspish malice that a few, backhanded compliments fail to soften. He dislikes their "hand-decorated and chromium-plated" music, inveighs against their commercialism, even gossips that Lily's high heels are designed "to distract the eye from rather generous dimensions in the horizontal planes...
Carey was not intimidated; he fought on, trying to soften some of the union's pronouncements on U.S. policies. In the middle of one skirmish, up jumped a Careyman who said he was an ex-Communist. He shouted that the union "is controlled lock, stock and barrel by the Communist Party. . . . The only decisions which will come out of this convention are those having the stamp of approval of the Party." Retorted "Fitzy" Fitzgerald: "Trash...