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Grocer Novelist. A man writing a novel, said Mr. Trollope briskly, is comparable to a grocer weighing out tea. Mr. Trollope professed scorn for "inspiration," described how he rose at 5:30 every morning, set his watch at his elbow, and wrote without stopping until the breakfast gong brought him back to the important things of life. He always wrote, he said, at the rate of 250 words per 15 minutes...
...Both scorn Earl Browder, but take a for giving attitude towards what the Nation calls the Soviet's "bad behavior" to small neighbors.) This line finally got to be too much for earnest, beetle-eyed Louis Fischer, once violently pro-Russian. Last week, after 22 years on the Nation staff and 12 years (1924-36) as its ecstatic Moscow correspondent, Fischer quit. Said he: "There were years when you rose up to smite any power that wronged the weak, when your words rang out against . . . the suppression of small, weak states by mighty neighbors. . . . The Nation...
...Dumbjohn, or whatever your name is! Brace up! Suck up your guts! More! Get rid of that gabardine coat! Get those shoulders back! Pull your chin in! Further! Further! Where 're you from? The Navy? What part of the Navy? Oh, Annapolis, eh? . . ." The next few minutes of scorn were enough to wither an asbestos monkey...
Monty refused even to discuss such terms. With the ultimate gesture of military scorn, he took them into his tent and showed them where they stood-on his own battle operations map. Then he sent them off to lunch...
...Bother Me!" Such forthright esthetic aims filled the new generation of esthetes with scorn and contempt. By 1870, a furious, no-quarter battle was under way that lasted until the century's end. To the artistic rebels, the oldtime Victorian painter kowtowed to an ignorant, over-sentimental public. He also debased the sanctity of art by making line and form play second fiddle to maudlin subject matter and moss-backed morality...