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...sometimes very funny set of lay sermons about the human predicament as examined in terms of "you-your home and kiddies, mom and the loved ones, old Doc Smith and the preacher, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Star-Spangled Banner-in short, the American scene" plus the still uglier clutter backstage. Novelist Wylie's high desire is to save the human race from its own worst enemy-itself. Whether he will succeed where such distinguished predecessors as Christ, Dostoevski and Blake have so far failed is open to question...
...they enter this show visitors are greeted by the insistent voice of President Roosevelt demanding ". . . 125,000 planes, 75,000 tanks. . . ." The voice from the loudspeaker pursues them down a corridor where newspaper headlines blazon the depressing progress of the war. They emerge into a still uglier room with blown-up photographs of men sleeping on benches, in cars...
...premeditated murder masked by a toothy smile. The Nation had taken a heavy blow. The casualties crept from rumor into uglier-rumor: hundreds on hundreds of Americans had died bomb-quick, or were dying, bed-slow...
Prospects were likely to be uglier still for later months, as defense demands overleap aluminum production, were not likely to improve much until 1942-43, when Alcoa, Reynolds Metals Co. and Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp. get additional new plants into operation...
...Another, uglier shadow preyed on the U.S. mind: Communism in the labor movement. There were few clearly marked trails. Outside of Congressman Martin Dies, who blazed away every time a bush shook, few saw any definite mark to aim at. But the Communists were like skunks: no one had to see them to know that they were there. Many a Congressman got a whiff. Democratic Leader McCormack announced before the Allis-Chalmers settlement: "We know that the Communists are in there working in Milwaukee." To OPM's angry William Knudsen, the important part of the Allis-Chalmers strike...