Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radioactive carbon, for instance, follows ordinary carbon through the most complicated chemical reactions, and its progress can be traced by its radioactive effects. Thus if an infinitesimal part of the carbon in sugar is made radioactive and fed to a human being, physiologists can follow it through the digestive tract, into the blood, the muscles, and out through the lungs as carbon dioxide...
This House Against This House is a pretentious title for Mr. Sheean's mixture as before: part tract, part treatise, part I-was-right-there testimony. The ingredients are not up to prewar quality. Journalist-Lecturer Sheean (he returned to civilian life late in 1944) opens with a long, rambling, Shesanesque introduction and concludes with a brief tailpiece in which he discusses world history from Versailles to San Francisco, poses the somber question of whether we are in for another war. His half-hopeful, half-baffled, wholly unstartling conclusion: no, if the U.S. and Russia can agree. He thinks...
...terrific. He meets her at the Mardi Gras and lays her on a cotton bale-she realizes for the first time that the Yankees are not all as bad as she'd thought.") The satire is not intended to cut deep, but it is an enlightening and timely tract on current U.S. literature's peculiar disorders and needs...
...many reviewers have, that "The Lost Weekend" is a powerful tract against alcoholism is to miss the point of the picture completely. Rather is it the story of the moral degradation of a human being, in whose weakness and sensitiveness we can discern ourselves...
...Krash, editor, did not deny that Harvard specifically called the tract a "golden mean," hardly a revolution, and that the Report pointedly disclaims originality, attempting to cull the best from both extremes of current controversy: "Without denying the partial value of any . . . views we believe rather that the main task of education is to interpret at all stages both the general and the particular; both the common sphere of truth and the specific avenues of growth and change...