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...governments both resembled Capone's rule of gangsterdom. Such ignorance and lack of discrimination pained our urban "intellectuals," but it was the latter, not the former, who were confounded when Stalin joined hands with . . . Hitler and invaded the Baltic States. Moreover, these same Americans rejected Communism with contempt, saying in effect: "I don't want no bureaucrat telling me what to do." Which statement seems to me not as beautiful but just as enlightening as Lewis Mumford's belated verdict that "the struggle is for the human soul...
...long-winded and occasionally either ambiguous or ignorant: in speaking of World War I, he referred to "the President Roosevelt of that period." The hysterics were incoherent - but in their very incoherence lay the subtlety of the speech. Every phrase infected British and U. S. minds with great contempt, but also with suspense and, in some quarters, anxiety...
Married since 1935 to the art supervisor of the Chicago Board of Education, Wagener sees his wife only in the summer, when she visits him in Estes Park. He has a fine contempt for genealogical hoopla. Few years ago Sister Hilda clambered up the family tree, was gratified to discover no Jewish blood, annoyed to find two illegitimate greatgrandparents. Not at all annoyed was Brother Siegfried. "They're authentic bastards," he points out, "which is more than you can say for the Nazis...
...cook. C. K. Dexter Haven shows his broad mind to Tracy by admitting: "You could marry Mac, the night watchman, and I'd cheer you." The parvenu coal executive is first ridiculed because his riding habit is new and clean "like something right out of a store window." Contempt for his kind is expressed by Haven's: "A splendid chap, very high morals, very broad shoulders." And when the parvenu bridegroom leaves them all, sputtering: "You and your whole rotten class! You're on your way out-the lot of you-and good riddance...
...week's end, not only dismissal but jail faced Dr. Selsam and 24 other members of the Teachers Union. Because they had refused, on advice of counsel, to testify at a private hearing before Senator Coudert, the legislative committee decided to cite them for contempt...