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...think Hoover for the first time has had some appeal in Texas," said a newspaper editor. Added a Kansas City newsman: "I've talked to several persons who say Hoover hit the old nail right on the head. But when questioned, they have only the vaguest idea what he said. They only know he stands for something other than what the Administration is supporting." Said an Atlanta salesman: "I wish to God we could follow the Hoover plan, but I know we can't afford to." The New York Herald Tribune, aware that isolationism was not the word...
...Clarence Day. Understandably, the only real conflict in Holmes's later years, i.e., the clash of legal ideas, hardly lends itself to dramatization. But Lavery skimps even on a primer-level presentation of his subject's life work. Having emptied the character of all but the vaguest sense of purpose, to say nothing of greatness, he fills it largely with a butter-soft stuffing of homely anecdotes...
...back: "This is Ludar Prentice. He has no money. He is going to his father Vivien Prentice at Balfour, Ontario, Canada. Be kind to him." Since Ludar's father, himself a new arrival from England, has just committed suicide, and since Ludar can give only the vaguest information about his background, a kindly carpenter takes him in and the townsfolk take up a collection...
...wealth and U.S. good will had been working for years, things are different. Recently they have discovered that the difference is not so big as they thought. The Philippines are torn by the chronic rebellion of the Communist-led Huks. The majority of the Philippine people have only the vaguest idea of what Communism is. The fact is that the West has failed to bring millions of Filipinos an order under which they can lead reasonably secure lives. LIFE Editor John Osborne has been touring Central and South Luzon, heartland of Huk power. The people he met-the fears, confusions...
...essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...