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...Poet and Librarian of Congress MacLeish recently blamed himself & other U. S. writers for: 1. Aping British novelists of the Hardy school. 2. Not having written a great American saga. 3. "Glorifying filth" in American literature. 4. Making cynical pacifists of today's undergraduates. 5. Not adopting Gertrude Stein's style...
...little Mayor Fiorello Henry ("Little Flower") LaGuardia declared a one-man war on indecent magazines, sat himself down and wrote a warning letter to 1,300 metropolitan newsdealers. Said he: "The Mayor has power of sewage disposal, and if necessary I will get rid of these dirty magazines as filth...
...theory on companionate marriage, however, is not completely dead. From Thomas J. Dorgan, South Boston politician who two years ago attacked the appointment of Granville Hicks and last year was the leader in bringing action against Russell, came a vitriolic statement deploring the appointment of "America's number 1 filth thrower to America's number 1 University...
Walter Millis: "I believe what MacLeish said to be exactly true but easily misunderstood. Battleships are useless unless armored with conviction; and the books, stressing both the filth of war and the partial falsity of the slogans, did tend to undermine conviction when their intent was to purify and strengthen it. But they ought to have been written. Their humane and rational teaching must be a vital element in forming the new moral purpose to arm a civilization challenged by war deliberately raised to a new height of filthiness and waged with slogans trebly false. . . . The right to think...
slums, twisting, writhing blocks of slums. garbage in the streets. acid yellow soap. floors, cockroaches. filth... arms ache. knees sting "Seen what we got to scrub...