The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
A Page of Feafures Americano The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN the SMn »o too Crodle WUJ4II JUOflII AfX public opinion poll on converting churchyards into children « JnW^lawrounda has gone...
...But 1M'0MMPK> view is not academic at all: it has norther 11teJHam*i informatton nor the vtoas of ¦Htfmtaiaj MLijBL/fl) As to the "adequate review" that weald "plans" One think taat.a nllii ^^t*piQ^M'^^Fm master in this way the freetioa ef uApwiR-J|BHahh crittoa oneenn egenet ftht ipaisjj^to ftl pgti.....1 tats they nto often.aento...
...Bob is with the Canadian Army: * kick out of your Pricking the hot-air balloon of army 4*JjMBUiion...
...The man ,auw be trying to prove that graveyards are less useless than I 'jjmpssed...
...THE deaths of Prof...
...His characteristic line is friendly snd communicative, for he never relies on the obscurantist techniques developed by modernism end now exploited by its epigones* to conceal both their lack of anwewtenee -and their lack of ideas...
...who published a good deal of Schwartz's work (aad Goodmsn's, too, for that-matter) ? Or is he referring 4o popular reviewers like John Chamberlain and Lewis Gannett* But the point is that the popular reviewers have so far ignored Scbsvsrtx...
...But that is nothing mere than ^.grntuitetis insaiatou ef the poet's intentions., iVn-ljUJiiis ejarinr hlairejf aat to be the mortal enemy of sinrtrnnhtoaw ClliitataMH.hw self hauls eat the : age-old iiseehiiisi j Of si^Afieji...
...3) And far from identifying Delmore Sehwsrts with this class, I should say that be is not an academic at all...
...But who...
...The part that, sheer prejudice played in establishing the idee of "iu-perier races," the relentless factor of economics, the strangling hold -of a petrified tradition -are all ably dealt with...
...i 'Mm our armies, Jones remains Jones...
...An Exchange To the Literary Editor: Paul Goodman's review of Deunore Schwartz's Genesis in your issue of May 22 seems to us to fall on the side of casuistry rather.than criticism...
...ttlismi, Florida . . . crowded buses to and from Miami Beach ...crowded with soldiers, sailors and civilians . . . Negroes sup-sewd to sit in the rear seats . . . rear, center and front crowded •salherirninately...
...Both scientist and layman will find Men's Most •Pangsrsee Myth unusually stimulating s Chatter Inside and Out By MATTHEW LOW to tee U-SJS.R.: , . . Only this weak Levis Fischer (who is himseif psivsneMoe ,-ala< wrote "1 hope CaaaiSy will retum to Russia sad errtte.s sequel which will ui...
...His most concrete remark is that Schwarts should have used poetry.eriiere he pew At*m> prase, Jtnd vice versa...
...enrudgg to'jBaf, wJaet* slipperj manner of the Communist or fsthrw-trjpwjpgr MfSlCvta of a moocher and glory-hunter...
...He quailed not before Bostonian frigidity...
...In the costume novel, the background is unimportant, end the critic's attention is rightfully centered upen the degree ef truth the est as i perceives end presents...
...1 em really not at all humiliated to learn that England anticipate* America or that the British Labor Party stole ^a march as gte world...
...By the definitions of a desk-top dictiotiar>', the term "historical novel"—or biographic novel"—is a contradiction...
...the young get to life pretty tote, hat to learning Wry certainly do not get at aQ...
...tetesily infaUible, and all crities of it are denounced as hypofgtatr Bven murder when committed by this infallible hierarchy, _fS«Mrho can think and write ,suoh things have lost their-souls...
...snd early, just to look ever the neighborhood . . .^eeM^HB' were the Commies, at the same old stand...
...who ?was never ntwstee jn the working-class msverearit...
...we whites pile into the rear *»t...
...The facts were completely wrong, end the linhlsiilpnl jjjs jsean end vicious—for what's wrong with taking sdvwtJsamenti from Warner Bros...
...The crities ef "Mission to Moscow" were sailed **wu«>ito>aati-war JsefaMa.*'' The Tsotekyites were called "Hitlerite mad dags* ¦ . As for the HiUerite mod eegs...
...Me told the trsth sheet the heavy, renaossssp kg Hasesay, lap...
...And as for the cnaualty' itots, no exploiter...
...Now, If I can get a vSgao fg the cow going over the moon, Pll be ready to sign off...
...Duell, Stoan and Ptaret...
...docile, 'know-their-piaee-Negroes,' really try . to obey the law . . . try to occupy the back seats . . . can't get Iktre...
...fts is still there—very much there...
...Pegler announced, was '"the most honest and least devious" of labor spokesman- Joe Curran of the much-prees^urentod He-itienal Maritime Union, hp anted, *ls...
...On the whole Goodman* terAnj«ue> fe tosJaJJsjfl^-ever faults the poem hss snd to slight iU admitted energy.in the assimilstion of ideas...
...The New Lender is perfectly willing to trail along egft'tbe Laborites—though it hopes, naturally, to be sain now ^gnMsm hearer the heed of the column than it is in this case...
...Negress sits among them . . . they ItaPiden't object...
...R^traehy: n. &e written history of a person's life...
...Of course, the Vsaisweiwg'' dots not need to he historical...
...Tim |MMI how much influence the quarter-page "Mission to ^»'apue)f*3df had on our attitude toward it...
...SchwaiU is one ef the few young, poets in America who brings to his work a truly modern consciousness...
...The-wnwd "academic" as he TpfT (tias aaisanliTrfnrrnr- either to the content of Schwartz's writing or to the Utasney .status ef those critics and reviewers «*ho have at ens .time or another praised Schwartz...
...30s»1fcWsgitel" novel should, however, be distinguished from the "costume" novel...
...In its taiaaatott .'feejn, the costume novel portrays...
...Gaunt Arthur.tde Gobin-eeu, in his -fKsssi'.ser 1'inegaHte des races hu-maines" attempted to erect a foundation for the ¦ racialist value...
...J'.l - m * ^JjUsamlJ Wrfnoaf RaUqhn Ititte other dsy I had lunch with Victor Erlich...
...This is s personsl narraUve...
...from people or companies it dislikes or disagrees Wtth...
...What Schwarts gives to such persons was thejiaapwt of my review...
...But why my bones t reader of The New Leader should drag this incident eve* off the shelf at this late day, I cannot make out...
...As for what 111 think about when we, go into stt^ep—no doubt, I will try to re-acquire the old habit I had in jgg^^ju,national Brigade, of bobbing and dodging and huggiug taTJprth—a trick made more difficult by the tact that Ive taken lijpflilllilHl nil 111 " At Crow Is Moult/fig JfewN-EYED August Claessens has been touring the South and •<*ut*a up on East 16th Street with the following report of -lungs seen .and heard...
...Bus driver comes to the rear to collect tickets ,j&jt*e*s»the un-Southem mix-up...
...I want you to read what Bob writes lata England...
...Here is a genuine report on soloSer-thiahtag by a aider...
...that sen.Henry 1L Mencken tilting str.ight against the Boston That i, one season why a geed many of . mkwed hun...
...As>e critic his characteristic is an iittsanaigant etoges stoadnrd, ^end he therefore feels an amused dismay in the face of tbe kind of stuff that appears...
...Mr.-hnstybns rfaherH^seocily to the, form of the historical novel, bat the adoption ef this literary fosm cannot be seed to eeaeeal aaperlcialky and,haste...
...The ancient Greeks, for example, considered .nil non-Greeks ss "barbarians...
...aaVdHar method depending en theaneaaing rather than Mu ex-tenskm of terms, I don't need GaBnp ndBh...
...But one could never suspect this from reading Goodman's review, which mainly consists of s series ef general its tions...
...Crowds are bad for color lines...
...t*teche*l" isn't sack a bed earns I want see why yen weM t to ohaage-it to "mud...
...The novel is a titer-jag.jsljK-j|s hi the poem end the -draraa.' ?Ko never chained, herself to the monograph...
...A Jafju!,siternative-sug-gests itself...
...All the stories of BtaBn snd the Axis diplomats are presented plainly, pis fondness far the Germans, his embraces with the Japs, and alee his tetter rudssess to Churchill...
...us whst the people of Soviet Rumis are r ikitr.- ssyiag and hew they are Irving * . . . Bat "Moscow Dateline" was tee straightforward about the Kresattn regime- CeeaUy reported simply that BtaBn wee "lata...
...a.—by reason, gave a strong impetus to the race politicos...
...The .account of P sine's efforts to produce ..A revolution in England is sketchy and superficial, snd no reader would ever suspect that Paine had been a labor agitator who-.was fired ¦¦ sanssessan for his unioniiing activities...
...It happens that he resembles bis "Wj)n»-»0he sensitive face, the deep, sorrowful and understanding <*|ta Almost miraculously, the sufferings of his family have not jant the philosophical calm of his mind...
...Colored hdy-gets, comfortable side seat...
...shtwnes snaror Js...
...The beards wepa^aewM here and there-with a little new paint, snd there was.s sign tacked to a knothole which said:"Old Abe Uncoln split tkmt¦.SsW...
...raphy deal with facts and events in their causal relationships...
...He wrote numerous scientific papers on the problems of race, and has waged a notable public campaign in behalf of enlightened scientific ideas...
...In our opinion, Goodman cto indj|g4nf *in»s^f in O^onsjurycnOlagistow ef egjtowaqjBattions...
...Jeset Jeatofftt Jonet 'ijSBE coal strike has started another flood of what the soldiers 9 think .and don't think...
...There are,tote of persons around who don't like us—some ssqausi eprtepwa^Wfcipv some because we're snti-Fascist, others because we're anti-Conv-munist...
...4> -ate*|pr^»Mf, l-m not event^ardtete either peso ee Jtaseawa...
...The .proposal Jljafi' W* » at letBt * half-century old...
...The Reman church is -denounced for being authoritarian, taBljbk, all-righteous...
...But Lundeberg to no phoney...
...Soldiers and others in rear seats . . . long seat for six igjas...
...Is Goodman possibly referring to poets like Allen Tate and Wallace Stevens, who praised Schwsrtz's first book...
...enay of us standing . . . Negro rear seats J lied .with white Man . . . .plenty of soldiers, too...
...they don't mind...
...J;^te...
...Instead, Goodman ohoee to dismiss -Schwartz for not eon forming to some personal ataadasd e^ewaat-gardist parky...
...bitting only the drsmstic spots to Paiaes career, aad ignoring the fundamental...
...Novels deal with fiction, while history and biog...
...JjMt, hrtaflking with him, that I had there beside me a pro-•taalton, S continuation, a representative of the father who was •ahHedtjn' Russia...
...M. D. Conway's "Life" end Jus rentow of -Patoe's ^Wnhsiis," aad aware is Bttae evi-i dence that the aothor is temihsr eeth more recent snd beater sehslarskhj sate .in-tersretatl— ef ,Paine -as »a pmlsssiimil leeetotissnet, seeing the vision of a wepjd Jtawtoesheed...
...Deg of OM Sewery:_*Eureks...
...Qne dsy Ssmue...
...Columbia University Press...
...All of which is by wsy of saying that r^anrintern, or teCaMMn the Jsrenthn Set still,goes its merry way...
...Yet apart turn JmaJMtit-ised retardation of our eotnjulaory a^.rjhjlWLljW|t*» it is hard to see hew the pure verbal ^Froat" ef a Roosevelt, etc., could beso^enesa^y aceae^slaa...
...e A side to a Cos temporary:—Leek,<4v'sJter, Ws^reaily veW-eladjfc *^ A;c^olyqmjat can't keep a good name, and nerve it, ^a^ned up with allkinds of snide, irresponsible wise-cracks...
...Any newspaper man who says be grjtei the views of a million men is either out-Galluping Gallup SKiPOf* Uar—or both...
...Believe it or not, I still believe in Socialism Jajthi 1*0 U.SA...
...The Race Myth By JACK BENJAMINE MAN'S MOST DANGEROUS MYTH: TOE FALLACY OF RACE...
...So they sit or stand wherever they Ota •. . front, center, rear of bus . . . get all mixed up with the ashes...
...Theories of "racial superiority" and "inferiority" have long-standing historical roots...
...2.25...
...We can't see why you let yourself he used by antPfawaSeV-e^aaterapiajiers...
...hot a poet...
...The author igneses Paine's strictures upon complicsted snd dicta-terial governments and his attitude toward .the pence forceiahd the-nrUitory eatonliahment...
...M- F. Ashley Mantegu, associate professor of anatomy at The Hahnemann...
...the 28-year-old fflW'it Henryk Erlich...
...exactly, are these academic readers...
...This waMis~editod by Kenneth Leslie, is supposed to serve the in-"tests of American Protestant churches, and has .on Its masthead j*»aumes of a number of distinguished church leaders...
...In all history—here, Mr...
...The author has presented the.pamphleteer of two revolutions as the central theme of his book...
...Frequently, she has told her story in measured syl-Tpjgfejnas¦¦lues, she has teod the hoards...
...Putnam reviews Hewnrd^Fast's novel en the'excommunicstion of Joseph FiesnaMi^seaeoe^ ing light of the Kremlin cultural front, Futm— is now "an sManad left-wing litterateur," a man (ef-course...
...Hospital...
...to J|BH (Lundeberg pemarked) to use the Wiling at our members to«& ebeap publicity for the organisation or any individual...
...hoy meeting girl in an antique setting...
...But the Stalinist government is accepted...
...The unfolding, of its plot nap en is upen "past facts snd events...
...JtaJat'I .BjM Lam fighting a rear-gusrd and losing action en wefttf °ideb<Torncuitese'reCt *P**ch ***in,t aa n usaiHslai...
...History: n, &n accopnt of past facts and events .. jtrrarrged in the order ef their occurrence . . . and selected emphasized and interpreted with attention to causes and consequence...
...Or perhaps he has in mind the editors of the Partisan Review and Kenyon Review...
...In the Spring of 1*41, he writes, all ef Eaeepc tmssm that the Naato were gmng to ssareh, everybeay-eeowet "toe Rusaias people and the Soviet leaders...
...Whafe mere: we wqaTpn*t naajfjii see a precedent set.op where, say the TSmss^ refused to print Ifh...
...national culture, would be an imfiuglriplt) eeOjaJ^V...
...white man gets ud to give her his seat...
...The ¦ i '"ail III isnwBwel s ebUericel era bio-¦¦¦¦tli«l«i||.ail Mil criteria of history...
...John Erskine's commentaries en Lilith or Helen of Troy, and Margaret Mitchell's portrayal ef Scarlett are no more dependent upon their setting than the Ruritanian romances of Anthony:Hope or the Martian adventure stories ef Edgar Rice Burrougs...
...JOWARD FAST'S Cirurn Tom Paine is s true ** historical novel...
...Just can't make it...
...His particular strategy is to identify Schwartz With some kind of vaguely defined and largely mythical academic audience which has ostensibly discovered its own image on this poet's work...
...So Walter sported in what had keep the .fpweyerd ot an old church on Hempstead Road...
...A Page of Feafures Americano The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN the SMn »o too Crodle WUJ4II JUOflII AfX public opinion poll on converting churchyards into children « JnW^lawrounda has gone far enough to justify a preliminary ^part...
...Books and Writers Between Fiction and History By WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE tre/enm o) Huivry, l-**ver$U), vi nteosnsnt CITIZEN TOM PAINE, By Howard Fast...
...Has he taken a Gallup noli of university-teachers' taste in contempo-rsry poetry...
...He is a profound scholar, **t«ipnt, active democrat, a fine, deeply civilized human being...
...Hooray for the war...
...When Walter was a )pj in London and more interested in good times than in good meenmen t, he found the churchyard all prepared far the ¦ re- ' caption of him and his play-fellows...
...Bus rolls on to Bir-¦ersgkara, Alabama . . . everybody cheerful...
...As to the more specific points in the Jotter: (1) Mhrn I do not reason by the entenatonal legteJMstlnr...
...flame of us stand in the aisles...
...njao Walter Millard comes testimony which at one and the Mae time supports ray idea and deflates my ego...
...So fur, the returns are Us follows: for the proposal, 100*> ; correspondent, whose name sounds phoney and whose ^..i, soubUeas imaartnary, refers to an ancient tale by Her*nTt**sbery called "Hatrncfc" It wee this work of art, you will /eenm...
...toswaalianv to Uyingeown Mte'Mrer> to-toe^mturwirhd proper uses ef the poetic medium...
...I cannot do better than to copy August's spnjs jueUas they ran out of his typewriter: /. JSfim Crow is having a hard time down South during these Man...
...Ad-herhag eerawaBsushnsdeids an aether may cast hio hiateeicsl aeceanu in the form ef the nevel, but he-may net use that form to evade issues, to add an antique yarajeh to s dull tale, or to present an insdeeuate or inac-seewte aetongwetoatoa anaupperted by historical evidence...
...Negro women tries-to get a "tar seat...
...Smith may think that bees is nuts—or vice -versa...
...U nommnnplsre, while the pictured the reselatioatst as a dirty drunkard-even if not s "filthy utile atoeisf—is probably antoee The author gives a credible account of the reception aad influence of Common but Jie essays no enalysis of .the doeemeat Serious ieesupse are: any mention of Baine's eeriy mechanical interests, his association with ladinaUaad se-formist societies, and his.-nsaejhtot aa Agrarian Jnttiet...
...thieMvSTsnfcy <sew*d appear to iu naked utadequaey...
...Presumably, the author is dealing with universal truth—bold adventure, the course of true love, or the triumph of virtue—and has chosen to emphasise the universality of his theme by dressing his characters in hoftpskirts or shining armor, casting their ispeech in archaic words, and projecting their sc-tiee* against .en .ancient haehgaound...
...Bus driver speaks up: 'Will ijtajhasj pitting on that side seat please get up, go to the rear ayatawJet that colored lady sit in that aisle seat?' 'Colored eng!' I heard that clearly . . . hardly believed my ears...
...ajtet^t7' *"ffi in ^a*?T iTnjiM 'fSut^Tms*^*^^ approval has stopped his rotereOripto^Meononr«^^o passiiiteiaatluiial reputation by sddreaateg teen - pesneawi JaMawatete him on the strategy of war...
...The historical novel, on the ether hand, is eoaceraed with history...
...There to no :Sj)MK«etA]r—he the measure sufficiently stately— she should not narrate her memories by treading With Terpsichore...
...2.60...
...there has never bean a major people so MpjfOkmga the Americans, from top to bottom...
...He has svoided the creation of fictional characters, and he has yielded not to tempts uon to resort to "hokum" so move his story...
...Pn i liipii T, nrtiksjan .gSS to say that university-teaahers .erejer BeeStedts,*o other jsnung poets...
...Bat if the seperfieial trappings ef the "never were-removed...
...oc-•gijmfkWjt...
...The novel is a legitijnate form, ^and ,jaJtaatotosate vehicle for presenting the re-eaysyiipajtafjtsl research...
...WW these no longer any right to speak about religion or any *R*tffeod thing...
...weft, the fteBy Wsthor 4»aated a eaaert that the Nasi-trsls 11 caaanea de aot mahe tor the teqi|u '^^^ ^^i^^^ he^tesr^seagite^U^ jhe' lialj^a*'*jfc' tore...
...Asamssy...
...As a life ef Tern Paine, the beak is sketchy, cheep, •ashy, .and . hseeeeeqsesstial...
...In fact, the "fictional"veneer is so thin that with the removal ef a few pages and some seaaered paragiaphs the hook would heeome s biography end not a .novel at all...
...Strangely enough, "a free press" today depends at fiHf en that element of "freedom of advertisement...
...Bnt nay attteajt totML* culture, in the "Americjnj jaene," ratbsr thaa tojps cur wealth and our poverty for rh| jttaaiBl AT|wtr...
...Those who object to such murders are accused * Western hypocrisy...
...The characters must he real and their development meet-be trf«eAwsth a ant regard to cause* snd con ¦ ¦ eeeantneaa/' fft ifufHttwl rhsrsstsrs srs lalio sneh.Aeami4lray eaeat be type figures...
...Kenneth Leslie in an editorial says that it was **4arUy .all right to murder Enlich and Alter because they were i° Stabn...
...Who '; would have thought one would live to see K?-irPsejer asja^Olrfc beard tor a bona fide labor jnan...
...Heinrich von Treitschke, et...
...Allen -Tate, Hervey Allen, Margaret Mitchell, to name but a few—have delved into the rich Amer-Jaauw«hajd^have brought fictionalised versiens Despite enS.dictionaries' sad she purists, there ' KjhtaPltf hliag with this...
...The major haiiutoan that :^jMiwj|BW from being financially dependent on ads is the noneMao jjhjfci influence whkh the money-men wield in editorial policy...
...Wawsul tore myself away and returned to the office, I found ^asnsdesk s copy of the ApriWMay issue Of The Protectant...
...Dear Sirs: I am afraid that these writers de net-have- my -high opinion of academics...
...Personally, my opinions haven't changed MM.iota since I left the Holy Catholic Church of Russia around , ttafSXh Street corner...
...ef teaser men...
...Yes, sir, it's terrible . . . like up North, whites and Negroes ntajstt together . . . stand up together . . . hang on the straps together...
...Let me say by the w...
...Currying on the tradition of their greet week in cnkursl end physical anthropology is Dr...
...It is my opinion that only in the jHjiJHofthe totalitarian states can one speak of the mass opinion af the men in the ranks...
...for now to these persons the eetawMM sciences here sjl tbe values snd everyday life is empty...
...History is conceraed 'Wa^jBWWste, not with form...
...The tombstones jad been neatly arrayed against the walls—leaving the wide euarsl spaces for the children...
...If so, then where does Goodman get the statistical evidence to support his observation...
...Bahv, is s generalisatieh...
...The last message to reach the outside ^WfMrein the martyred Polish Socialist and labor leader was atjaffectionate Marconigram on the occasion of this young man's JWIMOJ in -November, 1941...
...Others iH...
...Northerner, d course...
...Sir William Job Collins who later became a prominent Labor Party man, had led the movent for this reform...
...esell-behased...
...Negroes, charm-d(sT...
...At the-Seme Old SUnd:—WeU, we woke up one ewnra^jhi^M...
...snd mast necessarily be arranged in the "order of their eeeurrence...
...White' and 'Colored* nten.sre still up, and every effort is still strained to keep these ~ Jawtas of mankind from blending and contaminating each ether, ?seem, war times make strange bed-fellows, strange mix-ups, -Awjpge mockery of sacred segregation laws...
...the irieaeaesatehle eesnwewaset wsbo-gises es information, pmspeitiec-emftoeawBrtg...
...came the cry frem Wetleweefr Pegler this week . , . the latter-day Diogenes M JalslLM' help him, an honest man—and ef all places In the Leber fjSrav spent!____lrilliens ef Pegler readers were shocked to.read, under the'lasaslMir "Fair Enough" column-head, a white-worded tribute to Harry Lnndgberg, kteder ef the Wset Coast aeWit' WBt Here...
...Nevel: n, a fictional proae narrative . . .involving a plot of more or Jess intricacy*, and ostensibly presenting a picture of real Hfe...
...feet is that the material of Genesis to, of a vssulent end dissident nature, precisely the kind of this* to-srkieh thejaca-demic mind is habitually hostile...
...7-lk'Another smear hem against us appeared in your iiwunm 1JP» week...
...B..f!h^"|N,rtfii" .in "The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century...
...A really adequate review of Genesis, sypporting its pudatsaents with sufficient evidence, shooed here attempted to "place" Schwarts in relation -to -whet is sctaeHy being written in English at the Bias set tome as wall as in relation to ths teedtthm edmuntei n pxeury...
...Ttte Atarjcsn and Canadian armies are composed of free individuals ahSjjad ,priTSte views on various subjects...
...JMjbe jt really is a people's war...
...A goodly heat of literary entrepreneurs—Kenneth Roberts...
...jm the tame page is a paragraph from an article directed "••Mitthe Catholics, end in tins paragraph occurs the sentence: ^taultitude of churches may mean an enrichment of religious *<a*t...
...Jim Crow, that «rl stock bisd, is getting his feathers all mussed up and losing est ft few ef them...
...An .academic, in -the eminent sense, to a thorough scholar, lover, and transmitter ef anetent and modem lesrning...
...Men in the Army have no unanimous opinion...
...It's s story which might attract the movie producers, but it's neither s good nevel war peed history...
...Medical College snd...
...tot's.get psese fair.play fneat yen, Wattar...
...Kept in school throughout sdulescnDte...
...seuoerat of RoaaU" who will remain Set "as long as he Urea...
...1) Far from being their . "mortal enemy," etc., I think that they play one of the two or three essential cukusal roles, and I am proud that by training-jsnd -prerfeoaion (though net vocation) I am a minor academic myself, (t) Bat'I aid not say that the poet's admirers ware -seademies, but a "certain dass ef -academics...
...2) Certainly the Kenyan Review (and Allen Tate) are waelNrljhJa both the good and the had sense...
...My goodness, what is this South coming to ? «^0«.bus from Atlanta to Birmingham . . . crowded as .usual...
...What can yen egpeet wV& . a home like that...
...the Menders and ignorance ef the ruling Ceramenmt circles...
...By M. F. Ashley Montagu, with a foreword by Aldous Huxley...
...to Hollywood paeianee, it's ,a 'Quickie...
...A paper is obliged, within technical limits, to print Sjilijl mwngSi offered...
...What comes through, heweser, to the arrogance rather than the purity...
...The hook'i imsgiearyscanraaed eottveraatioaanre eredible.snd are consistent .with .known facts of Pame's life end times...
...A technology without s culture...
...Wpaie...
...216 pays...
...ahet has sang an -"aecont ef peat ¦j^jT^f^'.tae Jyre and the pines...
...His awareness of • ideas is a dramatic moment in '¦his poetry, and his attitude to the experience he describes is that of a person half-bemused and hsif-agonized by whet has befallen him...
...but this puts him in >¦ bid.way.for uaWsistoBslag sshal tlitaanmlnijiisn poet to talking about (He defends htm esyway, oa ^rtteiplea . But by the "certain class ef academics," I meant the ubiquitous mob who havejmoe ^ltwMeua<apiMfc<wBa> blissfully unaffected but rather, getting that J|dM verbal knowledge of causes and owttf$^jttmMmMf* makes a person feel that bis own eaajertoeaW.to'j|kt( known beforehand, and net really hJa own., sons are suffering s cultural crisis eanetfy.Thi ef that of the last century, when new sciences undermined tbe traditional values on which everyday Itfe j wss founded...
...Bronislaw kfalinowski have been a great loss to the world of culture and scholarship...
...If anything, when jnfnr themselves part of a mass, they cling stronger than ever •J* lifenre-army concept*—as a sort of hold on their .past selves ,fM*a Uak with the future...
...The Nasi claims for "blood'' and "race" have their ideological roots in the works of these psettdo-anthropo!-4fiW Mam's Most MawperosM Myth contains s m i SSth of material, much of it not readily found in any other volume on the subject...
...Yet, despite the dictionaries, historical novels continue to be writtten, advertised, sold, snd presumably read...
...But I WtaM in .this magazine one of the most indecent, most inhuman, neetligions pieces of writing which it has ever been my lot *>*0ntnnter...
...But I am inclined to disregard this impertinent—not M jay ebseure—communication...
...aor *de I generally make generaltoaUons...
...Franz Boas and -of -*'.Prof...
...Novell only "ostensibly'' present a picture of real life, history "really'' tells ef things wie tin etgeiUlieh gtwtten...
Vol. 26 • June 1943 • No. 24
