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Golden Calves
Rahv, Philip | September 25, 1937 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Little Golden America," by Ilya Ilf and Evgeni Petrov. In this book the writres' record of their trip in a Ford automobile from New York to the Pacific Coast and back again is a veritable dithyramb to American technique, efficiency and comforts. Every American seems to the writers a magical being, for he is surrounded by omnipotent machines whose service is so smooth and docile that the routines of living become an actual round of pleasures. Hence their book reads like a catalogue of conveniences admiringly noted.

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LITTLE Golden America (Book); BOOKS; ILF, Ilya; PETROV, Evgenii, 1903-1942; INDUSTRIAL efficiency; TECHNOLOGY
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