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Result was a stimulating book to warm the heart or ruffle the hackles of every born controversialist. By the folklore of capitalism Thurman Arnold means "those ideas about social organization which are not regarded as folklore but accepted as fundamental principles of law and economics." He sets out to show that the lot of them are myths. Among the "myths" he attacks...
...Lowell was a born controversialist and she was notoriously one of the most outspoken and fearless critics in the history of any literature. The poetic renaissance called her best faculties into play, and she used them with striking success from the time when her memorable--and triumphant--quarrel with the mercurial Pound began in 1913, until her death. She was never more magnificent than when confronted by ill-natured opponents in a lecture-room. On the other hand, there was never a fairer opponent than she, nor one more ready to make friends again. Yet polemics provided but one channel...
Died, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 62, famed British poet, critic, novelist, militant Roman Catholic controversialist; of heart disease; at "Top Meadow" at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Proud of his romantic poetry (The Wild Knight, The Ballad of the White Horse), he was best known for the books in which he defended his conversion to Catholicism (Heretics, Orthodoxy), his novels (The Man Who Was Thursday), his biography of Charles Dickens, his "Father Brown" detective fiction, his sparkling editorship of G. K.'s Weekly. So close was he to his good friend Hilaire Belloc that their violently medieval, anticapitalist, anti-materialist philosophy earned...
Readers who know that Hilaire Belloc is himself a poet, a lusty controversialist and a belligerent Roman Catholic, anticipated some pyrotechnic digressions, and they were not disappointed. Author Belloc's Milton resounds with Bellockian bellows, on every subject from the present state of the nation to the sniveling rascality of a 17th Century renegade. On Milton the poet he casts a keen professional eye, melting with reverence most often but sometimes, when he catches Milton sporting with a mediocre Muse, sparkling with contempt. To Milton the man he is bluffly antipathetic, regards him as the arch-heretic...
Although Mr. Wyndham Lewis has to a certain extent gone out of the field of his other work in "The Enemy of the Stars," he is still essentially the controversialist. The two characters. Arghol and Ramp, unreal as they seem, express in a convincing manner the ideas of Mr. Wyndham Lewis, ideas that were way ahead of their time of dealing with the conflict between Labor and Capitalism...