The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
A Page of Features Americana Books and Writters Chatter The Home Front By William E. Bohn Ho Pleasure Driving * MU"" * «*" CATURDAY was my first day under the newjrule against using ? gasoline...
...Kaxie's work, ^ however, he - is not always a sympathetic observer...
...Yet despite the.failure to close the inflationary gap, the price dam erected by the general price ceiling order has so far miraculously withstood the supposedly irresistible flood of excess purchasing power...
...The Film Sense, have been surprising...
...She had a good deal to do with the way in which the Navy was laying itself out to be afce to us...
...Edith sat on the couch and I in a deep chair...
...That's the Lieutenant's name...
...Rutgers University Press...
...Our friend, the Fordham seismologist, suggests that 1943 may keep the ball rolling...
...Vachel Lindsay, was right...
...Thus only too frequently he makes judgments that suffer from a snap surface quality...
...From that day Snward his physical condition is a matter of contain...
...To ? Young Man Receiving His Wings When the Junkers are all junk And the Messerschmitts are messes, When Capronis go kerplunk And the1 Focke-Wuff obsolesces...
...Not that hie description of Stalin's literary salesmen who took their order from the Kremlin and sought to impose their sinister party interests upon literature is not excellent and exceedingly well-documented...
...Well, inside of twenty-fsur hours we could easily have some sort of a hull welded together lb that it could be dumped into the water with a splash of champagne...
...His study has the great merit that it approaches the problem of anti-inflation policy both with the tools of a trained economist and with those of a trained psychologist...
...He hoped for "increased cultural cooperation between the two great peoples...
...Majors and Minors THAT evening we spent at home, and it was a time to be long * remembered...
...The answers era supposed to prove whether the applicant is a subversive character...
...You will easily understand that if you will look, even for an instant, at one of the points which is melting two steel plates into one...
...World War II, I hope, has brought to an end this self-imposed inferiority...
...THE past year, probably one of the most crucial years in the existence of American democracy, was notable also for the publication of three studies of onr literature and culture-Maxwell Geismar's Writer* in Crisis, Constance Bourse's The Roots of American Culture and Alfred Kazin's "On Native Grounds*-which will do orach to reveal to Americans our national promise...
...In his desire to be above the battle Kazin has forgotten that the past comes to life only when it has some direct contribution to make to the present...
...and of V. F. Calverton, our pioneer in sociological criticism who prepared the ground for Mr...
...Matter ef fact...
...When the war is over—presumably—the company will have the privilege of purchase, and the government will calmly write off the loss...
...The report is that refugees seeking visas to the U. S. have been asked by the State Department: "Do you believe anybody should be allowed to have more than $25,000 a year...
...It now appears that the Hollywood Joe Davies won't have as good a Russian time as the Ambassador really did...
...Do yon think it's unfair that Mr...
...And Japanese earthquakes can be bad...
...Too long Americans have lacked, as Margaret Marshall recently pointed out in her admirable essay on Constance Rourke, the knowledge—except of the most superficial sort—of our background and tradition...
...Treses dlupjsed everything...
...One or the other volume must submit to extinction...
...ne left Berlin at the end of a European meeting of Japanese representatives, traveled through the Soviet Union freely, and is now still m Vlarfivostock...
...Jerry, being a very sensible cat, had gone to sleep...
...Instead we are instructed by a massive prose history...
...Armed with a press-card «nd expecting every cop to hold us up, we started out through the wide and vacant streets...
...Now, I ask you — what chance did Silone have...
...I had in prospect only one trip that might be classified as business...
...Edith didn't give Silone and me any sort of break...
...too often they displayed "an almost defiant non-interest, a kind of snob-ism in reverse" which denied the importanoj and relevence of our cultural heritage to the present...
...The note from Debs, who had served in Atlanta, worked Kke magic Treses was trudging along with his mop and pail, and suddenly a guard barked at him: "Drop that, you damned fool...
...sociological equivalent" of tbe novel bet also its aesthetic qualities...
...By George Katona...
...It shows that those countries in which democratic spirit and democratic institutions are most deeply rooted, Great Britain, Sweden, and Switzerland, have managed to fight inflation with a minimum of compulsion and a maximum of voluntary cooperation on the part of the communfty...
...Anxiety is current about diplomatic ma-netrrers in Russia...
...We were not driving pleasure, and pleasure was not driving us...
...THE discovery of modern economists that eco-* nomic trends are conditioned by variable behavior patterns of economic agents has escaped the attention of most popular economic writers still steeped in the prejudices of a departed laissez faire economies...
...The tragedy of an artist under totalitarianism is pointed up by the hack political propaganda work Eisenstein is required to do for "Anglo-Amerjcan-Rnspian" victory today...
...Pass...
...On# club," said Schickelgruber...
...Katona's main point is that inflation, like all other price trends, substantially depends on the behavior of the economic agents in the face of certain conditions of the supply of goods and of the purchasing power for goods which are usually termed inflationary...
...I can't mention the name of the firm, • tell where the yard is situated, or mention the type of vessels it turns out...
...Don't bother getting out your Rand-McNally—It's on the Volga...
...See those boys starting to lay that keel over there...
...wife of Aneuran Bevan...
...Kazin is less than generous when he writes of James Heneker that he "made an honest career out of gossip, indirectly wrote criticism, end brought impressionism to America...
...I knew that things could not continue that way...
...A school right on the grounds trains them, 52 at a time...
...He answered every question in sharp, clipped words — with continually repeated reminders that if I publish anything that makes sense my name will be mud...
...1933...
...Five diamonds," said Von Hibben trop...
...Face flushed by the fire, she moved softly across the room and stttled on a hassock or footstool or some such darned thing right at my feet—with her finger marking her place in that anthology...
...A Page of Features Americana Books and Writters Chatter The Home Front By William E. Bohn Ho Pleasure Driving * MU"" * «*" CATURDAY was my first day under the newjrule against using ? gasoline for pleasure...
...Following our "By Book or by Crook" exposure here last week cf Joe Curran's attempt to foist party-line literature on the merchant marine, we now head from the War Shipping Administration that it is supplying books for the men of most American vessels...
...Look," he said, "if we wanted to go in for publicity we could knock the socks off that Kaiser man...
...But what's the use...
...Across the Seas:—Two American civil servants were mardered in Algeria, the Brazzaville radio reported this week...
...I should have mentioned her before...
...These are a few of the observations which George Katona's study on anti-inflationary policies suggests...
...By this time we had abolished titles...
...Some of the writers of that far-off period died without adding to their laurels...
...Thus he avoids the mechanistic bias with which traditional economics is so deeply ingrained...
...So I, being the sort of cool curmudgeon that I am, sat there practically tongue-tied and accepted each of those Americans of twenty or thirty years ago as a writer of masterpieces...
...There is no such thing as written poetry, printed poetry, silent poetry...
...When the government was about to issue its general price ceiling order, editorial writers of the daily press claimed that as long as the billions of dollars of the "inflationary gap" was not closed by draining off the consumers' excess purchasing power through heavy taxes and compulsory savings, price ceilings would be ineffective and bound to break down...
...The opposition of these self-styled economists to the government's anti-inflation policy has been a classical case of mechanistic narrow-mindedness...
...But anything which Edith reads instantly turns major on her lips and in her tones...
...This was undoubtedly a coincidence but it is symbolic of the intellectual awakening of America, of a new awareness, in this greatest crisis in the history of civilization, of our intellectual and democratic potentialities...
...Three diamonds," said Goering...
...Somewhere in his book he berates Burton Rascoe and Floyd Dtll for their lack of depth of conviction, the depth of understanding, that arise from something more than courage and enthusiasm...
...This is precisely what ails "On Satire Grounds...
...yReymal ? Hitchcock...
...in all these countries governmental measures have been so fortunately combined with cooperation on the part of business" and labor unions that rigid general ceilings for prices and wages have so far been avoided...
...Where does the error in the arguments of the mechanists lie...
...But here is one thing which I can telL Labor relations are perfect...
...Bill's Hps curled a bit...
...Unlike many Of our contemporary literary critics, Kazin has a sense of relative values, and one is indeed captivated by his diligence and erudition...
...Today there is a new intellectual awareness on the part of the American people, a fresh desire to know the mind of our own country and to revaruate our., past honestly in the light of present-day events, the essence and soul of these events...
...Pass...
...A temblor is in store for Tojo...
...No friend of Gene Debs does a stroke nf work in this jail...
...It has mainly been based on price ceilings on the retail end of the distribution process and on wage ceilings combined with a living-cost clause...
...He has thus, incidentally, negated his premise enunciated in the book's introduction...
...My ' wife, Edith—just before we left—asked about Henry Kaiser...
...America's Literary Fast By LEON DEHNEN ON NATIVE GROUNDS...
...Jacobsson) that has been sponsored by Rutgers University is highly interesting in this respect...
...He swept and scrubbed and mopped and end all-around dirty work . . . until on* fine day a letter from Gene Debs arrived...
...This, dear friends, is tragedy...
...When the Heinkels hike for hell And the Zeros all are zero, When your job is done, and well, ' Come you home, my airman hero...
...Whatever the weakness of Taine there is no doubt his work gave unity and a significance never before attained by a literary historian...
...The Science of Economics By ALFRED BRAUNTHAL WAR WITHOUT INFLATION...
...It has been found that the drinking of milk tends to preserve the sight under these trying conditions...
...It wouldn't cut one hour from the time it takes to send a finished ship on her trial run...
...It is a present from Frank J. Hogan—who made $1,000,000 for keeping Doheny out of the penitentiary during the oil scandal...
...Frawrrrewr has has published a warning not to accept illegal hteratare from unknown persons...
...No company...
...Cracks were observed clear across the island from the Sea of Japan on the left to the Pacific Ocean on the right...
...H. Gluck), Canada (I...
...I thought of tales I had read of the British returning to simple and inexpensive pleasures...
...And if it is sung—read—well, it turns fine in the singer's tones...
...I had been invited to visit one of those miracle shipyards, a place that didn t exist a year ago and is now eliding vessels into the water as fast as you can count them...
...He lectured on the "solid base" of "friendly Russian-German relations...
...PRICE CONTROL: THE WAR AGAINST INFLATION...
...With that cold, stricken fury that was characteristic of Crane," writes Kabin, "he impaled his hero on the ultimate issues, the ultimate pain and humiliation of war...
...Another ir...
...Why have we had from 1921 down to now,' not the harvest of poetry which Louis Untermeyer envisioned, but a series of novels picturing our life tad interpreting our thoughts...
...But mistaking pseudo-Marxists, who have applied the blue-print of the class struggle as a politico-economic phenomenon directly to literature and judged it ruthlessly according to its conformity to the straight jacket, for Marxists he completely missed the spontaneity of the American intellectual's revolt in the 1930s, its genuiness and vitality, and the positive mark it left upon our social thought despite its subsequent degeneration...
...to rest his judgments On the inadequacies rather than the accomplishments of a writer's work...
...Shell run as an independent in an hupend hay Parliamentary bye-election...
...John Dos Passos—who had lunched with Carlo Tresca the day of his murder—is now finishing his first novel in many years...
...The town seemed deserted...
...We saw them lay out a ship in a mold-foft, and then we looked at five ways laid out one above the other .parallel with the water...
...Reports are flying about the OWI battle with Cai Donovan's Office of Strategic Services...
...MY chief quarrel with "On Native Grounds is Kazin's lacV of a unifying idea, a central theme...
...I was deep in Silone's Seed Beneath the Snow...
...Scenes of his famous Moscow banquets are being rewritten, because the studios can't get hold of the luxurious cuts of beef and lamb and stuff required...
...Treses had published a little birth-control advertisement on one of the back pages...
...He moves through our literary past and present always maintaining his equilibrium through continuously lively motion, "making cogent observations on dugouts, ivory towers and olympian rubbish heaps...
...He is by no means opposed to propaganda itself, but advocates a propaganda technique aimed at strengthening the people's cooperative spirit by making them understand the issues at stake and the fundamental causes and effects of their possible reactions...
...There is a complete check-up on the health of each worker before he is hired...
...Now there is hardly anyone who recalls the bright hopes of that day...
...So it had just moved in and settled down by the fire...
...ITNFORTUNATELY for Mr...
...The war has boomed the circulation of the semiofficial Infantry Journal up from ten to a hundred thousand monthly copies...
...fJS That shipyard really was something, but I Had to swear not to print a word about anything...
...All other democratic countries have in the course of the second World War resorted to a sirn^ar combination of anti-inflationary governmental measures with cooperation on the part of the community...
...something to watch...
...Three years ago, Eisenstein organized "a Soviet-German cultural cooperation program" over the Comintern radio...
...I iterati & Co.:—Writers have nin up against another snag in the Mission to Moscow film...
...Perhaps alone among the critics in the '90s Huneker conceived of criticism as a creative function and "related it to Irving ideas, to all the great movements of human forces...
...This story, it is to be hoped, will some day be written...
...By Erik ?. H. Kjellstrom, Gustave Henry Gluck, Per Jacobsson, and Ivan Wright...
...Modern American literature, he believes, "is at the bottom the expression of our modem transformation of our society in the great seminal years after the Civil War, in "that moving and perhaps inexpressible moral transformation of American Hfe, thought and manners under the impact of industrial capitalism...
...no one' can yet weave into it all the many different factors, the rhythms of growth, the subtle effects of our American landscape, the necessary sensibility to what it has meant to be a modern writer in America at all...
...ALFRED KAZIN's On Native Ground, an interpretation of American prose literature from the 1880's to the present, is a notable contribution to this new awareness...
...Other Hollywood writers are getting to work on a screen biography of General Giraud...
...Jennie Lee...
...By rejecting uncritically Marx, Taine and Parrington, Kazin has discarded the very method that would have given his work the same significance as Parrington's probings into American cuiturt...
...The extended presence in Russia of the Japanese military attache is one factor in the Allied concern...
...The same method of praise with a dash of •vitriol is applied in his analysis of Stephen Crane's work...
...It was expected that the Communist reviews sbouW read "profound," "authoritative," "a beautiful work...
...2.50...
...The Psychological Approach to Problems of War Economy...
...depending on the psychic reactions of the economic community on the inflationary conditions...
...Johnnie himself has visited this yard to talk things over with my friend the lieutenant...
...Now and then a. flashing ember would pop against the fire-screen, cling for a moment, then fall back and smolder briefly, sending up slender spirals of smoke...
...An extraordinarily keen observer, he has the ability to discern and analyze not only the...
...It has come to America at last...
...The clock ticked...
...to discover the awakened vigor and energy in this, one of the few great poetic periods in native literature...
...Well," she put in, "it does seem as though you ought to do as well here as Henry Kaiser does on the West Coast...
...Why, when this man was full of the idea of his life, did he turn to prose...
...Today, nine months later, the taxes legislated to drain off part of the excess purchasing power are not yet in effect, and even after going into effect, there will still be this gigantic "inflationary gap" left open...
...Sokolsky is being recommended several textbooks on European history which will tell him that German social legislation stopped the emigration, and that what drove millions into exile were the repressive anti-labor, anti-Socialist laws and the notorious Kulturkampf...
...In spite of many differences, the pattern of anti-inflationary price and wage policy is very similar in Sweden and Switzerland to that in Great Britain...
...Conceived on a grand scale it is not only a critical evaluation of our modern literature but also, in a sense, a moral history of the United States...
...The dear man thought he had made a wonderful collection...
...The Gestapo is pulling s new trick—the pobtieation of bogus underground journals...
...There are no kicks on either side...
...4"1 What delights one in Mr...
...On the one hand Kazin writes of Crane as a novelist who anticipated the war studies of Stendhal and Tolstoy...
...A keel is laid on jigs on the way farthest item the water and then, as it is developed it is moved along—and another takes its place...
...So the welders are encouraged to drink from 10 to IS glasses.of milk a day...
...Kazin's premise is simple and clear...
...They usually don't even have a coincidental reference tp persons, living or dead...
...Corrvinced that the common estimate of our modern literature has been too lenient he inclines, as Lionel Trilling pointed out...
...The study on price control in Sweden...
...He may be just awaiting passage to Japan, but some Allied officials (particularly the Chinese) would like to be sure...
...The men — and women—all belong to Johnnie Green's Industrial Marine and Shipyard Workers Union...
...Roekeferter has so much money...
...I let Seed Beneath the Snow slip silently to the floor...
...This happened in April...
...Only the land is the property of the company...
...Diet is care-felly watched, and three cafeterias offer balanced rations at reasonable rates...
...America is not the only country where the government has learned a lesson in anti-inflationary policy by the bitter experience of the first World War and its aftermath...
...But not the stories about colorful, lovable, fiery Carlo Treses (whose blood still stains Ae" Fifth Avenue corner just a stone's threw from here...
...I* is indeed tragic that a whole generation of American writers—particularly during the last decade when we turned once again to, realism and naturalism — which revered Zola has completely ignored Crane who seems to me incomparably a greater artist...
...on the other—"for all its beauty, Crane's best work was curiously thin and, in ene sense, even corrupt...
...In 1927, the coast slipped about six feet...
...In 1923, Tokyo lost a hundred thousand lives...
...Toward the end he remarks: "For the rest, I leave the casual reader...
...As he wrote whatever there was of the poor thing was coming to an end...
...YVasfcingte* Notes:—One of the most important werM een-*T ferences of the war is due to open shortly, somewhere ever-seas...
...Take this little item...
...2.50...
...I thought of the days when the steel' companies used to burn men up and throw them out...
...His life was one long, fabulous anecdote, and the story we like to remember concerns the frame-up of hfe paper, 11 Martello...
...This economic theory is supplemented by a consequential psychological theory...
...But Kazin, for some obscure reason known only to him,-is not satisfied...
...X f The whole outfit—buildings, whys', tools—belongs to the U. S. Navy...
...In 1891, the main island of Japan was practically broken in two...
...for literature, unlike philosophy and allied subjects, does not present ideas directly...
...Perhaps, influenced by Kazin's own method, his failures and omissions have been stressed here at the expense of his achievements which are enormous...
...And the moment Edith has read a poem she becomes its ardent champion...
...There are a thousand ways of convincing or persuading consumers to immobilize purchasing power by refraining from buying, and the wisest anti-inflationary policy is that which as far as possible encourages such a behavior ands as little as possible resorts to compulsory measures designed to squeeze out excessive purchasing power...
...Twenty years ago an American poet thought we were at the start of a great poetic period...
...But then, again, as Kazin himself states, On Native Grounds is only a panel in the larger American story...
...According to Dwight Macdonald, in his "Eisenstein Tragedy" (current Partisan Review), the book is "depressing...
...Welders are the most important workers...
...Students of history are being daffy amused by the Sun's George Sokolsky's flights into the past to prove the holy nature of Capital...
...In Lyons, an imitation illegal paper was published, and all readers arrested...
...As a matter of fact, without the efflorescence of Marxist thought in the 1930's On Native Grounds could perhaps have never been written...
...Believe it or not, bat a recent Army map put Stalingrad on she Den River...
...Given inflationary conditions, such as scarcity of goods and excess of purchasing power, inflation may or may not Tesult...
...has tossed her bonnet into politics again...
...Anyone who has read Huneker's essays" on Shaw, Flaubert, Ibsen and Mai Stirner will probably be inclined to agree rather with H. L. Mencken's estimate of him as a figure who emancipated criticism in America from the bondage of sentimentality...
...What they failed to realize, however, was that from Emerson to WaR Whitman, from Stephen Crane and Upton Sinclair to John Doe Passos, American literature, as a whole, was richer in substance and more vital than the literature of Europe for the corresponding period whkh they often regarded with awe, envy and admiration...
...It is not tree that Herbert Hoover wffl he brought into the Lehman food set-up...
...The cat purred, Edith turned a page, and I tried to find the place in my book...
...The Canadian system of price and wage control, on the other band, has developed along lines that have influenced onr own anti-inflationary policy...
...Four clubs," said Goebbels...
...Cecret Weapon:—Take Hank Baldwin and Georgie Eliot if yon Kke...
...Robert Sherwood and the "battling Colonel" fist-fought over authority in Africa...
...We all, for example, read Sandburg now, but no epic on the great theme of Lincoln...
...Poetry must be sung in order to exist...
...Columbia University Press...
...A major Japanese earthquake occurred In 1923...
...He understands that the immediate problem Of literature is a psychological one...
...Navy Never Heard of Peg/er IN the meantime, this is the Navy's show, and don't let "anyone •'teTI you those naval boys don't know their business...
...They clicked, and everything is under control...
...I knew in advance which it would be...
...It was a lieutenant who showed us about—with the correct number of gold stripes...
...There is a completely equipped hospital with a staff of physicians, surgeons and nurses...
...And so Carlo Treses served his year in the Atlanta penitentiary—in a sunny cell, smoking his cigars, reading I aherf-fuH of books, magazines and newspapers—the strangest case of "southern hospitality" on record...
...Kazin's book is the freshness of his approach, his love for the subject and his attempt—although not always successful—to remain objective...
...Deel Story:—Some of the comments on Soviet Director Sergei Eisenstein's new book...
...It's an account of a politico, called Number One...
...General Eisenhower's message to Mikhailovitch in Yugoslavia, hailing his "immortal warriors," has cut the ground away from the Comintern partisan nropaamadiets...
...3.76...
...Jerry, the gray kitten, would sit for minutes in oriental contemplation—and then burst into scurries of playfulness...
...The car had become a strictly business tehiele...
...But The Nation's reviewer raised eyebrows with his remark that tbe book is "a lingering pleasure," "demonstrating the enthusiastic atmosphere m which Soviet film-making takes place, and reveals that in the Soviet Union every film is rooted in the history of culture to express human needs and aspirations," etc., etc...
...Well," I thought, "this is War...
...AlHed snip losses have remained very heavy— 1.000,000 tons a month recently—which is almost comparable to the period last year when Atlantic sinkings were front-page news daily...
...Simply in overlooking the fact that purchasing power is not identical with actual purchases...
...By Atfrtd Kazin...
...So all five ways are continuously occupied, and when each keel reaches the waterside it is nearly ready for jts: plunge...
...When •ttat sort of thing begins all over the country, Congress will really...
...but we say that the biggest blow to be delivered against the Japanese Empire in 1943 will be—an earthquake...
...No one, he thinks, has told yet the whole story of American literary development...
...This old whirling planet may yet come across with that "secret weapon," and won't it be fun awarding a DSC to the axis...
...Latest is that Sherwood is going to North Africa as chief minister...
...No pleasure driving...
...This he set out to do although he is conscious of the fact that On Native Grounds is "only a panel in the larger story...
...He is briiiiant when he focuses his critical searchlight on Theodore Dreiser, the Muckrakers, or when he analyse* the novels of Frank Norris (what ambition it was "to make America equal to file iniiuok, to fine a literary-equivalent for bis natien's bigness...
...And the war has produced some »well prose, but not one line of decent poetry...
...Karin, as a writer with a "superficial encyclopedism and gross taste...
...dull," "platitudinoos" and "uninspired," an attempt by the once great director to "adopt the protective coloration of official Stalinist culture...
...It is too early in hi* life, too, for Kazin to write glibly about Marxism...
...But inside his uniform he was nothing but a crisp and decisive businessman...
...Where twelve months ago muskrats built their modest homes in a swamp there were last Saturday 6,2t*Mfnen at work...
...Inside and Out By MATTHEW LOW rMesssetaas:—Most of ¦ the great stories about people Ota apocryphal...
...Undeterred by the seeming successes of the fascist propaganda technique of hypnotizing the masses^by suggestive slogans, Katona holds that favorable psychic reactions can in the long run only be induced by real understanding...
...The other day he proved the New Deal "a dangerous menace" by citing the German New Deal Of Bismarck, and how millions preferred to leave the Fatherland for American Capital...
...The U. S. Navy has learned that it pays to pay attention to the welfare of its men and women—there will soon be 1000 women on jobs outside the office...
...This is particularly true of his estimates of his fellow critics: Partington, Huneker, Randolph Bourne, Calverton, etc...
...of Randolph Bourse, the as yet unsurpassed genius bf American Hterary criticism, as "less a writer than the incarnation of his time...
...Perhaps so...
...The common complaint of our critics was that there are no "second acts" in American literature, that everybody reads an American book but no one ever rereads it...
...where the whole universe, leering through the blindness and smoke or Stendhal...
...On Monday there were a couple of hundred more—and so it will go until there are 10,000...
...Diluting his praise with a dash of vitriol—a method he follows consistently— Kazin speaks of Parrington (to whom he is indebted more that he would care to admit) as a writer with "a mind that performed a notable service but was not notable in "itself...
...H. Kjellstrom), England (G...
...As noted here last, week, "the sub menace" is going to be played up...
...David Selznick's people are trying to adapt Moht Kampf for the films...
...Richard Armomr...
...No Cover Charge « THE poets whose lines Edith read out of that anthology were ? strictly minor: Millay, Aiken, Pound, Lindsay, Frost...
...Perhaps 1 have been too critical of a book that is really admirable, that already ranks as a landmark in American literary history, and which, i would suggest, everybody ought to buy or borrow...
...One of the bridge columnists tells us the story of the contract game played by Axle leaders at Berchtesgaden...
...Wright) and Switzerland (P...
...The- minute illness or any physical defect appears it is checked from the start...
...The eyesight of these workers is precious, and it suffers great strain despite the protection of any sort of mask...
...He was sounded out to head the organization originally, but refused...
...Edith was reading Modern American Poetry, an anthology thrown together by Louis Untermeyer...
...Indeed, it is because he lacks a Marxist perspective (Yes, Marxist...
...Jerry took kindly to the idea, and was evidently enjoying the war...
...Agents close to the Italian Embassy seised upon it to bring Treses up on criminal Charges of "obscenity.'' H. L. Mencken, among others, defended him, but Carlo landed in the Atlanta penitentiary...
...The Library of Congress has received the original manuscript of Longfellow's "Village Blacksmith," for which the poet received $15...
...and roast me in hell for being so old-fashioned) that the author of On Native Grounds fails to comprehend the full tragedy and significance of the "Red Decade" in our literature, the tragic Thirties...
...The best of those who still live—Masters, Sandburg, Benet—turned to prose...
...By the way, Hollywood's Chetniks has shaped op as a first-ens* movie...
...Later on—while the fire was turning gray on the hearth—I turned to Louis Untermeyer's introduction, written away back in -1921...
Vol. 26 • January 1943 • No. 3
