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Tried and Failed. This week an old, earnest and angry man-War Secretary Stimson-took the Army's appeal for a labor draft to "those who have sons or husbands or other dear ones at the front." Said Henry Stimson...
...Senate committee may have misjudged the temper of unorganized U.S. citizens. A recent Gallup poll reported that 53% favor a labor draft; only 39% favor keeping voluntary methods: 8% are uncertain...
...hitherto been noted chiefly for her comment after reading Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" Now Joyce's admirers find themselves deeply indebted to this quiet, unpublicized woman for Stephen Hero, a fragment of the first draft of Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. After it had been rejected by 20 different publishers, Joyce flung the 914-page manuscript into the fire. Mrs. Joyce risked her own skin to retrieve pages 519-902, now owned by the Harvard College Library...
...polished; Stephen Hero, covering Joyce's college years, is comparatively diffuse, though a more human, spontaneous and revealing study of an embryonic genius. Though Joyce dismissed it as a "schoolboy's production," it is sensitive and readable by almost anybody's standards. In the early draft Joyce is a more recognizable college student-swaggering, confused, arrogant, emotional, but brilliant...
Denunciations & Epiphanies. Other aspects of Joyce's intense life which are more extensively and dramatically reported in the first draft are his wild hero worship of Ibsen ("Ibsen has the temper of an archangel"), his fierce denunciations of things Irish ("I don't think the Irish peasant represents a very admirable type of culture"), the "plague of Catholicism," and the Jesuits ("He spurned before him the stale maxims of the Jesuits and . . . swore an oath that they should never establish over him an ascendancy...