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...weighed in the light of his antecedents: He was born in Cornwall, and early became a Socialist. He came to the U. S. in 1901 and rose to a place on the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party. In 1917, he resigned from that Party as a protest against its anti-War policy. He is known as a strong opponent of Bolshevism, and now raises bees and flowers at his home, "Nestledown," in Vermont. He said: "No one who has carefully observed the tortuous course of the Soviet regime in Russia, with respect to both its foreign policies...
TULIPS AND CHIMNEYS?E. E. Cummings?Seltzer ($2.00). E. E. Cummings was in a French prison during a great part of the war. His protest took the shape of a highly naturalistic narrative called The Enormous Room. In the present volume we have a collection of his poetry. His work is always distinguished by a rigid adherence to freedom. He would rather die than be usual. The result is a riot of noise and color, of poems sprawling across and around and through the page. His phrases are unforgettable and wholly unique. Whether or not he has the gift...
...were taken for the founding of a "youth movement," similar to that which swept in waves over Europe at the close of the War, when the younger generation attempted to organize itself against the materialism of its elders. Sherwood Eddy, in support of this, said: "The movement is a protest against the old social order. Over Europe as a whole, one-tenth of the people possess approximately nine-tenths of the wealth." With reference to America, he asked: "Is there no autocracy in industry when for 25 years from 1881 to 1906 we averaged 1,470 strikes a year...
...Dibble writes in part as a protest against the large mass of American biography-against its "sprawling incoherence," "parochial banalities," "maddening prolixity," "heavy slabs of adulation." His own portraits are characterized by refreshing brevity, a swift, strenuous manner, a sincere endeavor to get at the man behind the legend...
...Dickinson S. Miller, for twelve years professor of apologetics at General Theological Seminary (Episcopal), resigned to teach philosophy at Smith College. His action is understood to be a protest against the Bishops' pastoral letter...