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...things theoretical is that the Fascist reader can contentedly describe the volume as bunk, the internationally minded Socialist can contentedly read about the development of a world "communal organization", and the old school liberal can contentedly pore over an internationalism based on natural law and democracy. Even the critic can contentedly point to inconsistencies like the building up of an analogy between the individual citizen under municipal law and the individual state under international law, which is explained away when no longer useful...
...reception last week to inspect the panels and to speed Artist Rivera back to Mexico, Critic Walter Pach spoke feelingly behind his great mustache: "Diego Rivera has given artists in this country a great example of artistic integrity." Added Artist John Sloan: "These are the first examples of an inspired, fired man's mural art in this country...
...chaffering, all including most farraginous chronicle" is James Joyce's definition of his Ulysses, a book which many a critic considers the most important novel of its generation. Whether Ulysses is also "immoral and obscene" and therefore unfit for U. S. readers was the question which Manhattan's Federal Judge John M. Woolsey last week was ready to answer in the extraordinary case of "The U. S. vs. One Book Entitled Ulysses...
...completely with the constitution. As a matter of fact the administration could go much farther then it already has and still be within the bounds of the constitution. The inter-state commerce laws allow much more power and even broader administration that the NRA has already attempted. No careful critic, who has taken the time to really study the act, can say that it is unconstitutional. Leading jurists all over the country, including Professor Thomas Reed Powell of the Harvard Law School, have upheld the legality of the act, and the Florida judge who decided against the government...
...Thorstein Veblen by Ernest Sutherland Bates. Mr. Bates has been charmed away from the truth, one feels, by a romantic sympathy for the immigrant Scandinavian, for his racial humiliation by the native Americans of Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is supposed to explain much of Veblen's vitriol as a critic of the economic society in which he lived and of the leisure class which is its characteristic by-product. If it were so, it might explain the vitriol very well, but Mr. Bates has gone no farther than assumption, and against his assumption stand the steep national pride...