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Britain has climbed out of the shadow of austerity, and is "steering a fairly even course between the primrose path and the wasteland," Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler assured an audience of prosperous merchants at the annual Lord Mayor's Banquet in London. The evidence...
Less than ten years ago, the district, near the sluggish Harlem River, was a dreary wasteland of filthy, overcrowded brick-and-stone tenements. Today dozens of blocks of them have been torn out and in their places stand two big, modern apartment projects whose high sunbathed and lawn-bordered buildings have given their Negro tenants a bright new standard and concept of living. Seventy-five percent of P.S. 133's Negro pupils (95% of its enrollment) come from the two big projects-25% are from one jammed block of dreary "old-law tenements." It is difficult to distinguish between...
...Camino Real is perhaps excessively pessimistic in reaction against Williams' previous Rose Tattoo, with its factitious "affirmation." But very excessive it is-and not only excessively black, but excessively purple. Camino Real lacks philosophic or dramatic progression (on that score, it might claim the dead-endness of a wasteland), but it also lacks all discipline and measure, so that the wasteland becomes a swamp...
...abandoned laundry in Wilmette Ill., scientists working for the U.S. Army are patiently defrosting the arctic's icies secrets. While comic-strip artists fight th next war in outer space, the men in Wilmette are learning to defend a closer battle line: the frigid wasteland that arcs across the top of the world...
...book has no theme and no plot. It is a loosely chronological log of a year's journey into a wasteland of waters, in, over, and around which nature has run wild. Here and there is a condemnation of the world's race for riches, occasional criticisms of Whitehall, its taxes and its colonial policy, a warning of the growth of Indian influence along the African shore of the Indian Ocean, and a perceptible shudder at memories of a normal life in modern civilization. A.C.D. is looking for something. He says it is peace, reason, and security...