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...that what is good is never too long neglected. To an extent, the Museum of Modern Art and its excellent catalogue have performed this service for Rodin. The show that opened last week firmly established him as the father of modern sculpture, an artist who gave new movement to static form...
...catastrophic war that will no occur; 2) the U.S. will continue to foo the bill for expensive space exploration and aid to foreign countries; 3) most important of all, the nation's technology will continue to improve, for freedom from want is not in the cards for a static society. Some sample predictions...
...complex to compete with Polaroid for the amateur snapshot market. But for some special applications, its lack of negatives or complicated chemical developers is a distinct asset. All that is necessary is to spray the film's photoconductive plastic top with an easily generated positive charge of static electricity. The bottom layer of the film carries an equal, but opposite, negative charge. Those two electric charges, although powerfully attracted to each other, are kept apart by the thin plastic film...
...unemployed fellow-citizens is "the price we have to pay for prosperity." This readiness to degrade a minority for the benefit of a prosperous majority implies moral acceptance of the breadline as a way of life (for others). To advocate a margin of unemployment as if it were static or intermittently fluctuating is to ignore the dynamics of technological unemployment in America. Moreover, it is not only the jobless who suffer. People in mills and factories and offices throughout the country today live in fear that their seniority may soon be insufficient to save their jobs when the next...
Stable government and responsible leadership are important issues in the current campaign; their importance is perhaps over-stressed because of the static legislative program of the past Parliament. The splintered Conservative Party, with six ministerial vacancies and an unpopular leader, cannot hope to retain the 116 seats it won last June. The unified Liberal camp, with a clearcut platform and a responsible chieftain, will win a clear majority. The Liberals will be hardpressed by Social Credit in Quebec and New Brunswick and by the New Democratic Party in British Columbia and Ontario. As stimulating as minor parties are to traditional...