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...SOLITARY SINGER (616 pp.)-Gay Wilson Alien-Macmillian...
...followers (both those from the Eastern slums and those from the Western, nouveaux riches) because his sincerest hatred is always against the oldest, most rooted, and most deeply educated patrician families (the Cabot Lodges, Achesons, Conants, Adlai Stevensons). Confining myself to native American growths and not to alien importations like Communism, I would classify McCarthy as the most radically and instinctively leftist dynamite in American history since the I.W.W...
...roared in a voice obviously intended to be heard all the way back in Indiana. He stomped his pointed shoes. He held out his hands and quivered his fingertips. The Watkins committee, he shouted, came close "to recommending the punishment of a member of this body for fighting an alien conspiracy to destroy our nation...
...slavishly rebuilding romanesque, gothic or renaissance churches, never utilizing modern forms until they are already outmoded-or else employing them artificially, in ... borrowings that lack any spontaneous spark of life. For more than a century, imagination-the true innovator of all new forms-has remained completely outside of, and alien to, the Church . . . The only great Christian artist alive, Rouault, had to wait until he reached the age of eighty before seeing one of his works admitted to a church...
...seasons. In Leonardo's own lifetime the wall began to show splotches of dampness. Over the centuries, well-meaning restorers flattened out blisters and bandaged the picture's cracks with liberal applications of plaster, painted over to resemble the chilblained masterpiece beneath. Five separate times, at least, alien hands overlaid Leonardo's mural...