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Art in Modern Life and Industry
… or thought has been countered by someone else or many somebodies who considered it as difficult, perhaps even dangerous, … field of manufacture of articles in daily use, there would come to them the idea that the bad can only be transformed … useful and ornamental, we fail often to recognize the many points of contact between the two. In industrial design the …
The Dilemma of Modern Democracy
… people with the necessities of life and many of the desired comforts and luxuries. Yet in spite of widespread and … necessary to prevent the activities of some individuals from injuring others. In the economic realm this meant … they have been so far transformed that the proposed remedies are no longer adequate. But if time fails us, it will …
Wanted: The Nation’s Future for the South
… before the rest of the nation; and while, as Arthur Raper points out, the region cannot contribute its proportionate … inequalities within our own borders, what can we hope to accomplish in the postwar world? John V. Van Sickle’s … to indicate that regionalism is by way of arriving. It is also a contribution from the newly developed Institute for …
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Beware of Revolutions That Require New Clothes: Obama Part Two and Orwell’s Animal Farm
… story” is another tale as much about the revolution’s soldiers as its generals, and how generals can only become despots when a population fools itself into thinking …
Rotten to the Core: Voyeurism In the Detective Film
… right place, they’re capable of anything.” The photographs also tell us something about the sort of detective Jake … frames of Chinatown also establish a role for the film’s audience, a role in which the audience of this and every … sleuth but a congenital onlooker, a professional voyeur. It comes with the job. He does go sneaking around hotel …
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W. S. Merwin, the Eternal Apprentice
… greeted him as if he were a serious poet. Like an elder, he also offered advice. “You don’t really have anything to … in poetry, Merwin continued at the trade, working in a comically diverse array of languages: French, German, … keenly. “To My Brother Hanson,” addressed to a sibling who died in childbirth, Merwin’s lines hint at the scale of his …
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