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...conference of Commonwealth Finance Ministers in London this week, the British planned to spread the austerity by asking all of the Dominions to restrict dollar purchases. Economist-Politician Cripps, with one eye on the dollar and the other on the general elections due within a year, walked a tortuous path. He and other Western politicians faced a delicate job in telling the public just how big the crisis...
...American entries alone provided dozens of provocative contrasts. From such hard-to-make and hard-to-take abstractions as David Smith's tortuous steel Cello Player (the work of a onetime war-plant welder), visitors could turn to such literary hardware as Mitzi Solomon's aluminum Family of Man Totem. Among the best of the relatively representational items were Alfeo Faggi's leggy, high-breasted Eva, Koren Der Harootian's Slave, Burr Miller's classic marble nude La Victoire, and William Steig's tiny, self-effacing Elderly...
After two evenings of wrangling, the Student Council voted Monday to grant a charter to the Sphinx Club, a new final club. The tortuous route which the Sphinx Club's charter application travelled indicates that a fundamental misconception of the chartering process has arisen in the minds of many Council members...
Patched with many a dubious compromise, Western Germany's new constitution had yet to prove itself; it was, nevertheless, a milestone on Germany's tortuous road to democracy...
Today, midway in a bloodier, more dangerous century, there is widespread skepticism about "the steady gain of man." Most notable spokesman for this view among U.S. Protestants is Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. In his newest book, Faith and History (Scribner: $3.50), Professor Niebuhr struggles with his own tortuous prose to present his pertinent views on what kind of progress, if any, man can hope...