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...Hoover method of economizing-by-committee failed to win the support of Liberal Pundit Walter Lippmann, once the President's close friend, now his keenest critic. Writing in the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune last week Pundit Lippmann declared...
...painter, Jonas Lie has always been an exciting talker. He dearly loves an argument. Striking strange postures, striding nervously back & forth, he will argue with anyone about anything. Reporters love him for it. For the first time, some of this vitality was apparent in his painting last week. Commented Critic Royal Cortissoz...
...John Sloan, another painter who can argue, over the propriety of inviting George Grosz, potent German modernist, to teach at the League. George Grosz has had quite as sound academic training as Jonas Lie, but since the War he has lost interest in fishing boats, cows, rocks. An embittered critic of the bourgeoisie, he does biting caricatures on canvas of bloated politicians, policemen, militarists, ?subjects appalling to genteel Jonas Lie. The upshot of the argument was that George Grosz was not invited to the League, that both President Sloan and Director Lie resigned. Jonas Lie's resignation...
...exhibition of interest to all members of the University is a showing of books relating to the poet and critic, T. S. Eliot '10, now on display in the Lowell House Library. Eliot is to be Charles Eliot Norton professor of Poetry next year...
...Author. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, born in Plainfield, N. J. in 1886, since his graduation from Harvard has been associated with the Doubleday, Page and Century publishing houses; has associate-edited The Freeman and the first American Caravan. Ill health forced him to desert the Caravan. He lives with his wife and two sons in Westport, Conn. Generally conceded one of America's few serious critics, Critic Brooks takes as the theme of all his work the peculiar opportunities and disabilities of U. S. literati. Of his study of Emerson, he says: "What I wished to convey was a convincing...