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...particular concern to Langer was the 'rather disgusting performance" of the leaders of medieval society who fled the cities in the face of approaching disaster. "Officials of the towns and the upper clergy fled, professors and students dropped their books, wealthy tradesmen closed their shops," said Langer...
...anything but "current coin of the realm," British industry every Friday has been forking over 15 million little brown packets of pounds, shillings and pence to 60% of the labor force. Friday evening, Mum gets her share. Friday night, pubs, cinemas and dog tracks get .theirs. Saturday morning, tradesmen get theirs. Unfortunately, stickup men usually take theirs early on Friday, and robbers in London alone last year made off with $700,000 worth of lolly. Alarmed by the rising robbery rate throughout Britain, as, bank trucks roam around with their cash loads, Parliament two years ago repealed the Truck...
Beginning about Thanksgiving, family quarrels become fiercer, relations with relatives become more strained, tradesmen assume a forced friendliness, and the dispenser of holiday cheer begins to feel then is not an honestly cheery face to be found anywhere...
...there is nothing very new, neither is there anything repetitive, a testament to the ingenuity with which O'Hara mines the invented earth of Gibbsville, Pa., and the ugly towns of eastern New Jersey. As usual, the social range of his characters-from the carriage trade to tradesmen who sell carriages-is wider than their moral range, which is the few degrees between halfway-decent and not-very-nice...
This is no invidious criticism. In referring to TIME'S omission, we express the normal desire of a labor paper to give an identity to the thousands of building tradesmen who helped make all this splendor possible. Perhaps these men will someday be forgotten like the faceless helots who built the awesome pyramids of Egypt, the beehive tomb at Mycenae, the Temple of Apollo at Baalbek, the Great Wall of China, those slaves of inscrutable tyrannies who toiled without recompense...