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...historic law that renegades first fling invectives at their opponents, then invite them to a fight, and then when the fight gets hot, retire to oblivion wearing a mantle of morality, is proved anew in the recent letter of my critic. People are so low and dull as not to perceive serious arguments. It is my critic who first characterized one of my ideas as "shallow" instead of giving "a reasoned" statement of his disagreement. I will not seek the hospitable columns of the CRIMSON any more. Yet I do not retire from the fight. I am in the fight...
...such apprehensions. The indubitable fact remains that for over a decade Gandhi has been the undisputed leader of the largest political group in India, and so he is today. His movement and his technique are far from being "impotent." The British realize their strength better than Gandhi's latest critic. The entire state machinery has been mobilized to crush and exterminate this movement. His following comprises within its ranks multitudes of those who by the strictest Marxian canons can be classified as proletarians. Whether Gandhi survives his present self-imposed ordeal or not he will never be an extinct volcano...
...Violin Concerto was coolly received. It was lacking in fireworks and Brahms, who conducted it, supplied a diversion by going on stage with his suspenders unfastened. In Boston where the recent Brahms concerts were sold out to the doors and Beacon Hill ladies stamped their feet in approval. Critic Philip Hale once wrote in the Herald: "Over the exit door of Symphony Hall could well be written 'This way out in case of Brahms...
...recent issue of "The Harvard Critic" ran an article titled "Communism for India." It applies strictly communistic interpretation to political cross-currents in India. It makes sweeping generalizations about their future trend. It is intercepted with unmerited flings at Ghandi. The following is offered as a corrective...
...evident that at the moment the Critic cannot arouse Harvard's overstuffed middle class from its lethargy. The last two issues have proved that the editors belong to this same middle class, "parasitical, living off other people's ideas," completely laking "the idealism of youth." Where they find their sex, will perhaps be indicated in the next installment. John P. Coolidge...