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...form of abstract sculpture originated by Artist Calder, mobiles are cunningly balanced contraptions of metal, wood and wire which sway, twist and turn as if alive when set off by motors, wind, water, the touch of a hand...
Sirs: Mr. Viskniskki apparently is enjoying the publicity ... so I'll add to his pleasure by prolonging the controversy. . . . By strange coincidence, when Viskniskki held sway over the efficiency of the New York Journal and the New York American in 1930, paper towels and white soap were eliminated from the wash rooms and newsprint and yellow soap substituted. I wouldn't under any circumstance accuse Mr. Viskniskki of this brilliant piece of economy. I am merely pointing out that possibly the mere appearance of Mr. Viskniskki at any newspaper plant creates a panic in the paper towel department...
...nature and the Reorganization Bill have ruled sway, and today the grandiose white-pillared building on Capitol Hill houses only three, perhaps four, old men. Likewise, a conception of social change has supplanted the former obstructionism. A peaceful revolution, of the sort advocated by Jefferson for every twenty years of a nation's history, has taken place...
Baffling to most U. S. scientists are the tempests in a tea glass that hiss up from time to time among Soviet scientists. For in Stalinist Russia science is under the sway of political philosophy, and Soviet political philosophy is a religion-complete with scriptures (the writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin), a living prophet, heresies, an Inquisition-and a God. The God-or, more exactly, the Holy Ghost-is the principle of dialectical materialism, which in Marxist eyes explains the working of the world, the whole of human history. In the U. S. S. R. practically...
...Author Jacob there is a close connection between popular music and politics. He concludes: "The music made use of by mankind, though it marches slowly and haltingly, quite decisively attaches itself to the political hegemony of the epoch. The royal minuet held sway while France was supreme; the waltz became the undisputed monarch of the ballroom when Napoleon was overthrown with the help of the Germans. One hundred years later the German-Austrian waltz died out when the victorious troops of America streamed across the ocean to the battlefields of Europe...