Who's Afraid of the Big Bad War?
HINDUS, MILTON
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad War? By MILTON HINDUS THE HUMUS COMEDY fry William gflJjSM H*re*urt, Brae*. 291 pp. $2.76. . .. . ; I WISH I had the style for parable. This whole review, to <k> ite...
...He is enthroned...
...It is called A Sense of Humus...
...De Montmorency plainly confounds Brittany with Vendee...
...worse than ever...
...tholitkal Notes:—The smoke ia getting thicket in Che eai'kroe%is *'of "New York's polftical centers—the primaries aretrt verylhr away...
...All French governments since the fill of the 'Monarchy have the seemingly chronic habit of killing a maximum of Bretons in each war, etc The writer knows no more of French politics than of French history...
...Because a mulch is formed the stuff grows...
...came te to us that week-and liltteg On the lawn at Tamiment (esfvi...
...we had late tmmaiatw •aaphnon that there was something fishy about-the apseejir of the Smith-Connally Anti-Labor Law . . Jonathan Stout had ah** come up that "Hay to attend the conference, and fresh from 'tee capital he was surprised, amazed, 'flabbergasted (not to mention a little troubled, for the Connally bill could be construed to put corresponderrta tike Stout in Jail...
...tea jiso large, but when I was still in the States I was dismayed kf the prevalence of ft, and Hew that I can loot across the Water ft what goes on I fee...
...Tate's judgment seemed to me direct and and sincere, but a little extravagant, and in rather bad teste (with its mimic of Emerson's classic letter to Whitman a century ago...
...I agree with you that no reference t ©this ease ash be thane without -affirming the gross injustce of it " • • .a Literati A Co.:—PM, we learn, is preparing a tengtisj stent against Max Eastman' (Incidentalry...
...Heae la a poet who is not less American for his lack of nationalism nor less loving for all his apparent hardness of heart...
...And now we have a defender of vegetarian leveling among the |**t*teBers...
...Dnrian "proceeded to concentrate all ranks with radical and strongly Republican tendencies aboard a single oiu vessel—the hatttesMp Jean Ban—which was to he torpedoed with all aboard.* etc...
...The new Lamartme style spread like a ptegue Grotesque head-pieces, running from beer caps te duffle bag*, became things of beauty...
...Smith-Connallv would have been in a dead pigeon-hole...
...He's dickering with the "Martin J. Kenr^y-Tarnnatey maeriine for a Supreme Court nomination...
...But not me...
...For most part "Shapiro's work" gives the impression of acute reportage In verse, which is to say that it rises occasionally to tight, effue-tive lines but lacks the sustaining control of inner form...
...These questions are part of the struggle of writing...
...You get.the thought...
...In the daytime you make as much atduey as possible, -but in the evening you want to feel righteous about it...
...worth remembering: and he has written at least*a few Tine* more than any other young American poet t know which offer a 'native sense of our own times...
...Dair%ti a big deal, too, the gossip runs, is little V. (for varmint) *Mar-cantonio...
...form ' a Jewish Anti-Hitler Committee, which the U.S.S.R...
...Was reading shldt^tte Anti-Strike Bill passing...
...A weed," he said, "is a plant whose ^irtees have not been discovered...
...Wallace, ami Lerner...
...Well-turned social realism is impressive, bat it is neither "major poetry" nor "true wisdom...
...What no one mentioned was that in the original plans to...
...This is something to tefeak] about...
...Salt and rUmd and the bitter sprag I LetTke wind Ugm, for many « man shall dfa...
...What dissenting rcaaaiks I have offered here were intended only in qualification of earn tica' attitude which somehow confuses mora, tone witn moral insight, aad self-consciousness with ger.u.ne understanding...
...First he gave us mrkm Embassy, then he returned to his Mississippi home and —rte Robert Cain, a deer* novel of the deep South...
...He pictures de Gaulle as an echo of British war leaders, -but everyone knows that de Gaulle is in constant conflict With the -British government...
...The prince in disguise took off his mask...
...A. Clayton Powell, Harlem pastor and publisher, k working wtth 'local district leaders in order to try and swing his candidacy for Congress...
...There is a lot df dis--nston gomjr on about the effect of war on literature...
...Success, as the man in our time and place judges success...
...The prince in disguise is no more...
...Capital sitting- in Washington and behind the newspapers, Has launched the first foot...
...The final stamp of success— she's young, beautiful, and rich...
...But there at that focal point of-fight-fig tins man goes calmly on with his work...
...It's a fine thing to think about...
...there * 'ft, many other parts...
...t stand on slendsrnees aU freth and fair . . .* No single poem hare, unfortunately seems to me to he a* complete and great as some of those which accompanies "T...
...Ftrst appropriation was for the Community Councils (a strict party-line outfit), which will back the Commie dtsruyten th "Che American Labor Tarty...
...of his old South...
...Note ' a* calm temper: , »*7e are beginning to feel more or less at home...
...It's thought wortn fcgdering...
...And, Lena Morrow Lewis, Ralph Waldo Smerson, Sherwood Anderson and Bertha Damon, I am going to forget all about you and, armed -with rniy "Twty hoe, march forth to destroy ragweeds, milkweeds...
...And A odea has confessed that language may be liSeleSJ, for Mo words men write cam step the war Or measure up to the relief Of Us fasaaasearaefa grief...
...On this double error he bases a fanciful tatlianii to make tjs believe that Daladier...
...The exits aad aatrannmt are tin their places the -way they never are in -hfe...
...This is a fable that requires some of Saroyan's own eloquence...
...In one short characterisation two assertions and two lies...
...Asa matter of fact, in Ms latest book...
...It was very moving...
...There are many of tkeea walking the streets every day...
...Taken together these poems are certainly evidence of a considerable talent...
...A most eloquent young writer, as you will agree...
...He is as ignorant of the present as -of the past...
...Guinea, aad the later poems which he has written in service (from Australia and the Indian Ocean and elsewhere) italicize once again the dhnrers of fixing rates-and responsilbilities for literature in wartime...
...I hope ft will not seem as If I am reproaching the Saroyan of today with a reminder of what he once was...
...I don't believe that one «w iM** to any One class or section of America and say that it I'"has "desirous than any other class or section to make all it can est «f the war—such determination being coupled with an extra-binary amount of patriotic words and songs...
...Max Brauer threw into Mdiscussion a 'remark to the ettect that a carpetimg government rs small hope for'Germany or for Europe...
...Only the death that is coming to boys like -Iowa now, ten Years later, isn't subtle in its coming...
...He felt very much because be was in the same position himself...
...Then came Sherwood Anderson...
...That's why "The Human Comedy" is breaking all records at tee Aster...
...W*e«*b-commend this teat for a two-mmute meditation for Messrs...
...He begins by having his picture in the paper (and writes a story about it) and ends by marrying the daughter of the vice-president of Bendix Aviation...
...This letter ffrin Bill Russell will serve as a piece of evidence, fie had "some jteitement" in his convoy, but censorship prevents him from telling mm talc Now he is in the midst 6f tilings in London, doing some-rjmr or otntr tor tne Army...
...I wish I had some of his talents...
...But about weeds she develops a highly moral philosophy: "If it **re hot for weeds, it seems highly probable that the amount of koejng would be less than hah* of one per cent of what it is under w**dy circumstances...
...CURELY this thing-doesn't exist...
...Herman Shttmlln, Donald Ogden Stewart, Genevieve Taboaia The surprising name in the list was that of—Waldo Frank...
...feaeraon started all this trouble...
...as Minister df War, took the trouble to go to the Ministry of the Navy to get drunk jn company with Darlen— which proves the author's ignorance of French habits...
...As a thorough democrat he »»d to stand up for the lowly...
...Democracy he ^aged...
...Gerhardt eekrnwledged the bet lost, aad pleaded for the creation of a a*v and truly beautiful style (according to a letter by his daughter which we've read...
...A letter from Albert Einstein, in The Ghetto Speaks, read in part...
...Here is a letter from Karl, who has been in the Army longer than Ralph: . "I think I'd go crazy staying in the States while this is on...
...The subjugation of Quiberon actually cost 711 lives...
...who is just thirty, is now somewhere in Nev...
...This is the first time since I entered the Army (hat l have been able to plan a novel, to plan chapters, to work odt characters...
...As to the extermination of two-thirds of the population—never has a royalist opponent of the revolution dared to forge an invention of this -caliber...
...He was a young man whose character was not very firm yet, and there was nothing in the outside world to correspondent with what in his more buoyant moments he knew about htmsetf...
...Not saying that I'll be sane anywhere else, though...
...But if the poet fa not Shelley's "unacknowledged legislator of the world" or Whitman'* transigurer of the *g»^-^fa*d tomato* UUWS askad^t to^ang* the*world* s«T(lau"aa^ipi»iT merely to record...
...formulated, Henryk Erlich was to be chairman...
...Vasajk has spent a literary lifetime attacking "materialism" te behaj&af "ideal values...
...Also in this connection we learn that there are several Sew wrinkles te that list of signer* which apparently endorsed Corliss Lamont's committee of Soviet-American amity...
...rf you don't remember, or never read it (which amounts to the same thing anyway) contains a character named Iowa...
...The author is ignorant of the history of France He writes, for example: "A century earlier the Chouan wars desolated Brittany, and the soldiers of Kleber and Bonaparte were not less brutal than the Nazis in Poland...
...They1** iataahing the same laughter which once IIOiWfMl •Baroyan...
...H is intelligent rLaughtc- and love are leading industries...
...I would never have signed ant itelitsalfi containing assertions to the contrary...
...And then came the recognition he knew would come...
...But Lamartine all these years feared that the confession would upset the business...
...Ctrt'l&frwer* opens...
...He hinweif knew who he was, but nobody etee did, and this lack of knowledge troubled him so that at times he doubted tile truth...
...Well, well iie.'MlT- - '2jf|sr»e known Karl since he was a little fellow...
...Kenneth Stewart, tste ' of the O.W.I...
...Just watch while I make his juxtaposition "The -Raman Comedy on one side—"Seventy Thousand Assyrians" on the .other...
...That's a 14-yaar, j2S,«O0 per, job-Hind patronage which •might keep the Kremlin Set p*tenty well-heeled for the next decade...
...kinds, the mWinery bwsf-ness can't very well make too many of these screwy affairs...
...He could tell me that each state has its justification, and he would be right...
...It's sodden and horrible...
...T89 papes...
...All's right with the world, after ail...
...Someday they'll go on from 'there...
...of the whole affair was vjry peculiar *The bill was on the White House desk tar 10 dUya...
...Ten years ago, Saroyan wis unknown...
...m /"htwte of the Week:—Could be teat there is something wrong with us...
...As a hay Anderson looked out at the fields of wheat and corn...
...Asled our own correspondent: Or did he...
...it is witty ("Beauty is marketed Hke a -basic food")—bot it remains repetitive and confused and ore really doesn't see the poem for the lines nor the meaning for the clutter of references...
...He gives the name Le Royal to a cafe which is actually called the "Taverne Royale" and he places it in front of the Ministry (of the Navy) whereas in reality it is located at the opposite end of the rue Royale...
...Just the right touch of irony...
...So—if there were no weeds there wowd "be few potatoes and beans-^ahd we should probably all ^heye you are, Sunday School is over...
...The French Republic "has only defeats and inglorious mediocrity to offer the Navy...
...I have dropped my endless third novel for a while and started a fourth, called Black Men...
...He is not even capable of counting the sum of the years, a century and a half, since the Chouannerie...
...Potaote:—The Polo Grounds meeting the other night honored two Soviet Jewish delegate*, ttsik Feffer aad Simon aamaaok...
...He opened himself to the world...
...Remember Iowa, fcaamnlrr the dat bourgeois who sat in warm, comfortable theatres laughing at the death that was crawling into low*,, remember The Big, Bad Wolf...
...You want to feel mtfshy, cruusi-mystical...
...The timing, too...
...Because there are **|ds you hoe...
...In this case the master "bf timing m off ed the hall...
...After all, you don't see Goldwyn and Jack Warner at each other's throat bidding for "Journey to the End of the Night...
...Jf ajrtbr cemetery, he Writes: "Evrr, in deatk the eftUs are unplanned...
...The Army has *tey?gbod Soldier of him, but he is the same Warm-hearted, high-•PWhe^oy he always was...
...They exterminated two-thirds of the population...
...Rockwell Kent, Tarn Lengycl...
...His "persons, places and 'things" rncrnde the corner drug'store...
...who did that smear job on Jan' Valtin a nasaaaV of years back, recently rejoined the staff...
...He mistakes Hoc he and Mar-eeau for Kleber and Bonaparte (who refused any sort of command in the West), and he slanders the armies of the Republic by comparing them with the Nazis in Poland...
...A -fig «? all lily-livered, appeasing literary folk...
...The hole we're in may be infernal but the sou...
...s •' * * • WW Weeds and Tfcelr Uses I **AS all wrong when I said I had found something that we are unanimously agin...
...And Yram Van 4fySk Brooks: "I know about this case and it's shocking injuaSea, attt I regret that the statement I signed -did not refer te fads injustice...
...If a man is a real writer, nothing interferes...
...A fine story...
...Because you hoe a mulch is formed...
...Afnd for 'nil fhe ftHD%-traveler hab-htfls about Wendell winkle's One WvHd, you would never knew that fhi...
...After describing Iowa and his misery, he went on to say, "at the same time all the theatres in America were ahem teg, over and over again, an animated film cartoon called *W no's Afraid of fae Big, Bad Wolf?' and that's what it amounts to...
...The way capita] is treated," he notes, "would, I believe, completely satisfy a Norman Thomas...
...Kenneth OiewYrteJ (Jonathan Stout told the full story of his North African titetilH week') has joined the staff of Newsweek...
...Some-lay,'Itfjbe, yotifll tell me the good of all this...
...He wrote some good stories...
...It may not be the great sociological hovel, but I am putting aU I have Into it...
...And the same fat bourgeois sitting comfortable in the warm theatre has Wee convinced that it really -isn't there...
...A rejected writer...
...By WILLIAM E. JOHN jjfrltTiTft ond War gjKbLIAM RUSSEL is known to our readers as one of the upW -anJ-coming young writers of the country...
...My dislike of greed is per...
...Ten years ago, he could have made a swell job df telling it Now Ptn afraid lie may" not eVen see my bhint, and neither perhaps will anybody "else...
...Doriot is descrioed as former director of I'Humaniti (another He) and the man who insulted Marshal Petain (another lie) when he...
...He relates that the grandson of Marshal Foch was killed on the beach at Dakar, whereas everyone cotild read recently in The Timet the good news about Captain 'Becourt-Poch in the aviation service...
...Then ht9»d tee notion: "Suppose these particular plants had never been her*—or suppose that they were suddenly removed—what other »»ats (weeds) could we develop to take their places...
...CHAPIRO...
...Everything that sprouts was suddenly placed on an equalitarian basis...
...He leaves thOttkt^Me Chungking...
...Nothing broad, nothing that*ateittiik eyes t« the multitude would see...
...He felt sure that if the President really mear.t his veto, aad ordered both "House aad Senate whip to line up every last vote in Congress to stop the overriding (or else...
...He was a prince in disguise...
...E. P. Dutton & Co...
...A most sensitive and eloquent young writer...
...Note— e.r-r-r~r...
...I have been tremendously impressed by the British since I arrived...
...At least 30 certain foes were absent . . . One correspondent wrote: "Mastery of timing has been one of President Roosevelt's greatest political assets...
...Once bom, once married, and one* dead" Of exiles "The earth is taken: this is net your home"' And hhv ineTyVE...
...but we still like to read a book, best-seller or no...
...The worst possible moment to bend it back to Congress would jsave been that Friday afternoon...
...It's all about manure Snd^ VNs and the hired man...
...Party leader MrCarmack in the "House eotrld have started Monday morrtrhg to wSfp up tee necessary one-third...
...Everything is his—Pulitier Prise, Critic's Circle Award, a Hollywood contract...
...Tow Hsrrisscn» which argued that "Creative writers should be used to interpret the war world so that cultural unity is re-established and the war effort emotionally coordinated": and they compounded the absurdity with the ukase "write a good book about the war now...
...I don't want anybody to think that I'm blaming Saroyan orfeeling superior to him...
...A writer aware of the injustices of lift Sad not afraid to speak out baldly against them...
...This whole review, to <k> ite eubject justice, ehouM 1 be written as a parable...
...Ibout the black mer...
...A prince rebuffed...
...John Coffee, Arthur Uphatn Pope...
...people with money laughing at the death that is crawling slyly hnto boys like young Iowa, pretending It isn't there, laughing in warm theatres...
...Nsadfass to say none ef them has written a good book about the war, or any book...
...It was dispatched at S o'clock...
...I was talking about weeds,'and it took but • short time to prove that I was—as usual—wVong...
...Most df these themes are developed with Wit and music, irony, a little bitterness, and a lively intelligence Few of these poems, however, possess a real structural Impact, the final felicity of technic* power...
...Of the University of Virginia: "to %nri ike 'Negro and avoid the Jew/It the curriculum^ Of an epitaph...
...a midnight movie, his new automobile, a Washington monument Hollywood, hi« college, his girl, a haircut, induction...
...So M. Gustave Lamartina...
...China . . Among the signer* of the scaaJsleoS afiuote...
...But now the film of Saroyan's own life unfolds...
...Victor Alter secretary...
...I only know that Whridaal liberty is the only freedom...
...Walter Duranty...
...komsne du Mareckal...
...What gives me any assurance that I can contribute more to the —arid by -writing than, aay, by typing out invoices in a shipping Sjm...
...It's-too-far.-tastk to be tree...
...CorpoTbogu/ng to frarmony ^ JkS I write this the German democrats and trade unionists are ^ holding a conference downstairs...
...Within the compass of six 'lines we -find no fewer than ten blunders...
...South American Journey, Waldo Frank use* much at lunger language in reference to the Soviet systeu than tats writer ever has...
...The author of-the story called Saroyan must have been a hack who stole all his' ideas from the Grimm brothers...
...Bad Wat...
...It is regrettable that such writings are published, whan the authors of serious aad sincere works are unable to find publishers...
...All of the historical references of the book are on the same level...
...The beat thing to do «to 'forget about it, and UVs go an doing whatever we were doing before Hie Dorian Story By PAUL TEXT©* THE ENIGMA OF ADMIRAL DARLAN...
...From an army camp, before he was sent overseas, he explained: "I write about myself, my Mum*, my afreet and my city, and not' about 'America,' the word tkat te the ehiej enemy of modern poetry...
...published a book entitled le taw mm...
...Devies...
...She goes •"^length of standing up for all plants.and animals which get Stehol'mto "the humorous category"—such as skunks, thistles, ttfles, etc...
...traveler document in defense of Mission to Moscow Ware: Aavtaa Caplind...
...Alec de Montmorency...
...the idea that we have anything worthwhile (o tsy* Although I won't admit it to myself, it's all been said— Be only thing new would be the method and choice of words...
...For him to defend the gross Devies awls is seaas-tiuag short of revolting...
...And so be wept for Iowa, and his -tears ware mixed with teas kind feelings toward those whom he felt to be responsible far Iowa's position—and his own...
...He marveled at what man had done by selection and breeding...
...A toag aad wonderful ten age, when a hat was a bonnet Lamarr.rre -had m little dtepute . effth a friend of his, Max Gerhardt...
...jfc-*rren=to oar own people, when they stand off and take a geed look—we seem prettj grasping and greedy...
...Suddenly Ws imagination destroyed the aristocracy which we have estab-na\a#«ver the years...
...It's the same trick all over again...
...Beat becomes "a former radical socials", member of Leon Blum's Popular Front Government...
...S. Eliot's arrival twenty-five years age " Consider Shapiro's "Hollywood" piece...
...it may perhaps arrive when, as Eliot has Said, "after the war the experience has become part of man's whole past...
...Nothing can probably be as cheap as Hollywood can make it...
...It is not Economics or So-*>fc«y...
...I do believe teat Shapiro is a poet of some power aad of a vitality that is almost unique among young Americans, and I would not want to dispute Louise Bogan's remark that his poetry may well become the touchstone for tins generation...
...Theodore Dreiser...
...He is equally unaware of the simplest facts of European life...
...Bet, he adds, "the metked of emplvytuy ana^Myteg labor'VjouU satisfy enr meet unsocial wteVlli hSUil...
...Lena Morrow tewhi set herself up as the Civil Liberties Union of downtrodden pmnts, and when Lena goes on the rampage she ramps...
...This woman knows her stuff...
...The tree inside account is available only now -because due to the critical shortage of at...
...Bat a reading of Shapiro's Person, Place aad Thing [Reynal & Hitchcock, $2.00] leaves one with a number of dissatisfactions, and so perhaps it is not impertinent of me to qualify somewhat the superlatives of so many discerning critics...
...I am approximately 100 pages along, and working every ?y...
...I am still wondering how many "fighting visa are covered by the sweep of this sentence...
...Wait a minute, "though...
...But there this Wting-man sits with war swirling round him and writes another tore...
...I have always bean convinced that the execution of the two PolishsJewtsh labor htenufs was a fatal poHtieal error and that the accusations are very improbable in themselves...
...Alex de Montmorency knows Paris no better tkan he knows France...
...A boy with death hi him, going north to Portland for his teat chance...
...Those are the war aims and peace terms tf the American soldier...
...Even laamastytine was araaaed...
...Mow he is in Saur---on special assignment in London...
...I know what I want, and I'm boss in that garden...
...Absolutely the most vicious, fsscistic thing I ever heard of...
...After reading Such idiocies arid others of the same sort, one learns that "Ledfi Blum was cutting and slashing Into the Army and Air Porce-^nto both credits ah8 men," all of which is the exact opposite Of the truth—as the budget figures prove...
...former head of the "French Academy of Design, has confessed his crime...
...His trouble's lack of work—it was the worst time of the depression...
...It has imposed a luxury tax on the traditional costume of the Bretons...
...Claude Pepper...
...Bf MATTHEW LOW Bias Week-Bad:—The historians wnl have to figure out hew much there was to n—oat as the new...
...I know most of- the boys Hf«*y think at all—think it's the thing to do...
...Now it can be told...
...hemssUy aid faithfully, his own place in it My soul standi at the MtSafiW sf my room, My days are /tiled with ocean', sound of doom...
...One cannot make an end of counting up the untruths which swarm through this miserable book: a work lacking in interest, sincerity, decency and value...
...this game carpetbag is one of the most fearsome Jyraools Th our national tradition...
...Seventy Thousand Assyrians...
...Whatever gives us...
...It is only that I admired his style of that time, his way of putting things...
...Literature cannot be ordered C.O.D...
...See what he wrote then...
...But the very fact'that they've taken it fpr a text is enough to show in what way it's tending...
...There is a compulsion •wwters Art Still Men VW^will recall what Ralph Toledano said last week about JElMmW thinking...
...And, like Eliot, Karl Shapiro, without benefit ef ideology and literary-club resolutions, has continued to be s poet:,.., and a soldier, in a time which has become soured by aha esfat of spokesmen who are neither William Butler Yeats sac* wrote fa sapfa to a '¦label for a war posm, " J think |t better that m timet Uks tksst A poet's mouth be silent, few sn truth W* have no gift toiset a Startitmn right...
...He insist*) that he could create an abominable hat style which would be Widely a—opted on the strength of his name...
...If be had written nothing better, I'feel, this would be a mar...
...The matter-of-fact way in which the cumulative effects of four years of war are accepted, the honestly expressed desire for cooperation with Russia and the U. S. after the war is over, tet absence of grumbling about the lack of food and consumer loath add up to a pretty fine attitude...
...You may have the greatest jBtertlindard in the world, but you'll have nothing...
...Everythiag s got a purpose, even death—for the next fellow...
...What goes...
...I have a Bat not far from the office, and the terrifically long evenings (blackout t u:i5) give me ample time for writing after work is finished...
...Thus he makes the writer, Robert Coffin, the President of the -Belgian Senate...
...Otherwise the job here is quite good, interesting, and of some value, I trust...
...Gerhardt scoffed, aad tea wager was on...
...Or if it -had reached Coh-gaate two'hoUrs-eaTBer—ibefore tee week-end rushof Congressmen' out of Washington started (an even dozen New York Reps., agin the bill, took early trams >—there might still have been enough votes around...
...It is sharp " The air i$ clear and famous, every day Bright at a postcard...
...rather perceptive remark -is made la the course of his comments on Stalin's "Russia...
...I am hot g*'nmh to throw either a tomato or a metaphor at her...
...By the way, the Newspaper Guild convention's mandate to participate financially in political activity is being flnegled by local fellem-traVelers...
...smart-weeds, plantain, mullein, quack grass, thistles, and any other sort of darned things that don't belong where they are...
...He's now a City Councilman...
...The book is probably not so cheap nor -ghastly as Mickey Rooney can make it...
...We want to get this war over and «tene Traj ai:we can get home...
...Is a thought-provoking passage in Wineeburg, Ohio...
...It is a confusion which issues in kindness for the book, hat in a real disservice for the -poet...
...Whoever said that "The-Human Comedy" was the first philosophical approach to the war was certainly right, 'bat Hs -philosophy is a slet pfng pill for the complacent American conscience...
...Nothing has been heard, thank heaven, ef that absurd British manifesto (issued two years ago by Arthur Koestler, Stephen Spender, George Orwell...
...PROM the very start one sees that this book is written by a foreigner who knows nothing of France and who feels no compulsion to inform himself in advance df writing...
...is certainly eternal...
...He dares to relate that Petain, Weygand and Dorian had the purpose of carrying out a military plot in 1934, two years before the accession of the Popular Front to power, and be represents them as members of the "French Legitimist Party" (sic), an organisation which exists only in bis fevered imagination...
...fW the Tap of Year Head:—Inasmuch as nothing human is alien to us...
...As vice-chairman, -the nomination fell to MachflCls...
...fr<5ta feft to rigffct, stid ffn-t by Hoe...
...One of them, and this a tfte first step of our parable, was called "Seventy Thousand Assyrians...
...Hasn't 'He -given it a twist at the end...
...Aral 'Saroyan felt very much for Iowa...
...52.00...
...Whether or not it is worth a damn, I ain't say...
...She brought poets, scientists and—finally whole book called Useful Weeds...
...In Literary Circles ty MELVIN J. LASKY A Young American Poet TOUR poetry moves me," Allen Tate wrote recently in an extraordinary public letter to Karl Jay Shapiro, "because it baa for the first time since T. S. Eliot's arrival more than twenty -five years ago, that final honesty which is rare, unpleasant and indispensable to a poet of our time...
...When she ted finished me 1 had not heart to face either her or an upstanding IJsiiUieu of smartweed...
...Two hoars later, and Congress would have been in recess...
...If that's something to take in yopr stride, I'm an Indian, . . . 'No union donations to political gronpg.' Fascist isn't the word for it...
...Bertha Damon wrote a book which is of the soft we JWfcr review in The New Leader...
...I think both Karl and the Army de-serve credit for this...
...He hoe had eneugU of miidifae whs asm fdaaap A young gist in the imfslea** •/ her *»«**, Or an old man upset « wmter's night...
...Shapiro's greatest strength is tea strength of his controlling intention (which is suggested by his title...
...we will, if you promise to sit still Tatrg erttMfgh, tail you this week the story of those women's hate...
...How could it be...
Vol. 26 • July 1943 • No. 28
