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...high melody. His verse often seemed as easy to read as McGuffey's Reader, but it contained universalities that obscure symbolists rarely attempt. In a time when despair is popular. Frost was grimly, gallantly optimistic. He saw man as a rider, "Mounted bareback on the earth ... his small fist buried in the bushy hide": But though it runs unbridled...
...heritage of his listeners he solemnly invoked irrelevant parts of Massachusetts' history. He threw in the names of Jefferson, Webster, Washington and others, not in the context of sentences, but as stark monuments to the Americanism of his views. He intoned them with severity. He emphasized with a shaking fist...
...gentle; once, when a longtime Negro houseman was dying, Kerr sat for hours at the bedside, holding his hand in deep grief. But Kerr could also be brutal: in a Senate committee meeting, he once goaded Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas into a fury, then challenged Douglas to a fist fight-even though Douglas has a crippled arm as a result of World War II wounds...
...Hollywood, Clifford Odets pounded his coffee table with his fist. He jumped up, paced, and pulled at his greying and thinning but still curly hair. His bushy eyebrows rose dramatically to a point and formed a triangle with eyes that flashed fire and looked as if they might come bulleting out through the lenses of his hornrimmed glasses. He was all but shouting: "In the '30s, with all the scrabbling and pain, people had hard, hermetic identities. They knew where they were going. Today the American people don't know who they are or where they...
...analysis, he traces the origins of the cold war to the pent-up emotions of Americans that must have aggressive outlets. After damning nearly everybody from J. Edgar Hoover to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for continuing the cold war, Goodman announces his own cure for cold war tensions: "An occasional fist fight, a better orgasm, friendly games, a job of useful work, being moved by things that are beautiful, curious or wonderful...