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...TIME really feels, as it claims to feel, a responsibility towards its readers to review books of poetry, may I suggest that its manner of discharging that responsibility is unfortunate? Even omnibus criticism owes the reader a greater courtesy than that of the smart epithet. You have shown, in your excellent reviews of the poetry of Cummings and Garcia Lorca, that you can describe verse intelligently and soberly. Consequently it is all the more disheartening to read your high-school wisecrack dismissals of Dr. Williams and Miss Taggard-writers whose long service to American poetry certainly deserves more consideration than...
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Naturally, if you are not potbellied, the epithet rolls off you like water from a duck's back. But I have strong suspicions you are, and if so, as the children say, "I hope that stang!" That is your modus operandi! How do you like it applied to yourself? I hope it raises your blood pressure...
...last week, the windup of Minnesota's gubernatorial campaign was sufficient reason. That spectacle had reached a point where Farmer-Labor Governor Elmer A. Benson, stung by his Republican opponent's charges that the Farmer-Labor administration was a corrupt city slicker machine, hurled back the worst epithet he could think of, called burly young Republican Harold E. Stassen a "drugstore cowboy." As fantastic were Republican Stassen's chief campaign planks against the most successful Farmer-Labor party in the U. S. : he promised: 1) a State Labor Relations Act, and 2) to do something for Minnesota...
Eighteen years after a storm of controversy was aroused over his championship of the policemen in the Boston police strike of 1920 and the epithet "Bolshevik" was hurled at his head, Harold J. Laski, former lecturer and tutor in the department of History, Government and Economics, urged socialism as a means of preventing "a new and dark age," in a Ford Hall Forum lecture last night...