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...addition economic institutions, property and market, occupational roles, and the relation of the institutional structure of authority in the occupational sphere to social stratification will be treated...
...Norway were interested. Sweden's Foreign Minister Christian E. Günther spoke of "linked destinies," and the Conservative Speaker of Norway's Storting, Carl J. Hambro, hurried to Stockholm to discuss the pact. But facts were cruel and disruptive: Finland now lies in Russia's sphere, Sweden is geographically Germany's pawn, Norway's bare face is Britain's to slap. A mutual defense pact might therefore anger all three of the major powers. But since combined German-Russian wrath is much the greatest Scandinavian fear, the alliance would probably have to favor...
...legs of Premier Yonai's tripod were no more wobbly than usual. In its own sphere, the military was still effective. The Army could still announce an objective, go and get it over dead Chinese bodies, and then retire into garrison...
Such a question is not as irrelevant as it would at first seem. A history of at least the last 25 years of American government could be written around the bureaucrat's encroachment on the sphere of the representative legislature. The New Deal did not start administrative legislation. It perfected a system which began with the first regulative commission in the roaring sixties. Congress could not pass laws to provide for every possible eventuality. It had to give wide discretion to the men who administered the laws...
With that leverage on good and evil, talking with a rational clarity most mystics have lacked, Mr. Propter makes moral mincemeat of everything in sight, "good" or "bad," within the purely human sphere of endeavor. Some of his enemies-war and fascism-are popular pushovers. Others will leave Propter few takers. A partial list of targets for his dialectic: politics, capitalistic society, organized religion, romantic love, science, socialism, humanitarianism, language, virtue, selfless devotion, sex, art-in brief, all activities on the purely human plane, however disinterested, are productive only of evil...