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...doctor's beard and stump-speaker's hair, in his thin, restless hands and his flashing, nearsighted eyes; in his quick, alert, high-shouldered walk as he strolled about his garden. It persisted in his plotter's habits of thought, which made him the most potent critic of the regime he broke with and always a latent threat to it. The fate that all revolutionaries fear had pursued him wherever he went, from Turkestan to Mexico. His son and most of his kin had mysteriously died during the years of his exile. Only three months...
Lewis Mumford is an art critic, a specialist in architecture and city planning at a time when more cities are being destroyed than built. He has written authoritatively about these and other subjects. He is also a militant and vocal liberal, and has en joyed a long connection with The New Republic that ended last June in a hideous rupture (TIME, June 17, July 8). When Russia, the "Socialist Fatherland," began to exhibit openly all the symptoms of a flourishing fascism, Mumford denounced Communists. When German, Italian and Japanese Fascists began to burn the cities of Spain and China, Author...
...great analytical minds of literature. This "engineer of human souls," as Biographer Ernest Simmons calls him, graduated from a military engineering college in 1843, tunneled such depths into man's mind, spanned such cataracts of feeling, built such a monumental Cloaca Maxima of passionate drama that a contemporary critic said of Crime and Punishment that people with strong nerves became almost ill over the novel, and people with weak nerves were obliged to cease reading...
...qualities of a chipmunk, including a love of stone walls and a sidelong, quizzical look. The resemblance would be still more marked if chipmunks wore lorgnettes. Her impish weekly literary column in the New York Herald Tribune, "Turns With a Bookworm," is appropriately signed I. M. P. Between columns Critic Paterson writes novels for much the same reason that the Irishman liked to be hit on the head-because they cause her so much anguish that mere personal calamities shrivel by comparison...
...literal meaning of the words; and then what Christine thinks I mean; and the associational ideas in my mind, drawn from individual experience; and then the equivalent but entirely different points of reference in Christine's mind, to which I have no clue." Many a reader who admires Critic Paterson's flip newspaper way will shake a puzzled head over If It Prove Fair Weather. Those who are not scared off by its slow and mazy manner will enjoy its seriousness and sly competence...