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...Copeland Gray, a liberal Republican and up-the-ladder veteran of the Wage Stabilization Board and the Regional War Labor Board. The committee vote on him: 9-to-3. Gray's proudest boast: in 17 years as labor expert for Houdaille-Hershey's Buffalo subsidiaries (shock absorbers and firearms), no time was ever lost through labor disputes...
...pact. To dream of a revolution is . . . to carry it out with double strength. . . . Surrealism is what will be." Observers discounted the big talk. Said one: "After the gas chambers, those heaps of bones and teeth and shoes and eyeglasses, what is there left for the poor Surrealists to shock us with...
...Reason frequently attempts to shock the reader with pointless vulgarity (". . .a faint, sour reek of vomit came from her delicate mouth. Mathieu inhaled it ecstatically"). Existentialists may deny that such scenes are introduced for sensationalism's sake, but they have not explained why it is necessary to expound their doctrine solely from a worm's eye view of life. What one of the characters calls "the freemasonry of the urinal" will seem, to many readers, an accurate description of Sartre's own books...
...letters Auden's position is beginning to be as influential as that of his friend in England who also traded countries, St. Louis-born T. S. Eliot. Both wrote militantly anti-religious poems at one period of their development, but are now Anglo-Catholics. Auden is a shock-headed Briton with chewed fingernails and schoolboy charm, whose love of language is so active that he is never quite sure he doesn't write entirely for fun. He feels and says that good U.S. writers are too inhibited to admit "the basic frivolity...
...meant to shock, and it did. Two days later, the Post reprinted part of its editorial over a long list of highway crashes, drownings and other holiday fatalities...