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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poor Lit Crit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...space slave-one of TIME'S prophets -should have said: "Have words, cannot unravel." This nitwit lit crit dissembled a vile mess of subliminal nonsense to suggest that Aldous Huxley is a sub-pessimistic old fuddy-daddy. He treated Huxley's prognostications, fulfilled or unfulfilled, with the strangled insincerity of a man who likes to say "say it ain't so," so he says it ain't. The thought of this compulsive lop-shifter of ideas and neologisms frothing his prophylactic at the dreaming West is downright rummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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