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...frayed . . . How else explain the rising mistrust of each other, the roaring bitterness, the ranging of Americans against Americans, the scapegoat hunts, the assault on freedom of opinion, the intolerance of opposition, the increase in calumny, demagoguery, bigotry and smear? I am afraid it is because fear and frustration abound: fear of the unseen death-laden struggle in which we are locked, and frustration at our inability to get directly...
This picture, then, is an exaltation of the man St. James, of the species Guinness. Of plot there is little, and that little will not bear too close scrutiny. Supporting players abound; they must be there, since a game of such ingenuity demands many pieces that can be moved. If the picture seems to degenerate at times to farce, are there not always buffoons ready to disport themselves at the feet of the great? Guinness' performance is the thing to be seen, to be admired, but to be copied only by one who, as St. James cautions, can maintain...
...perched himself atop the back seat of an official car to accept a noisy, ticker-tape welcome from downtown Manhattan. To the crowd of half a million who cheered him, he responded with a wry grin and a wave. When the parade passed into Wall Street, he glanced abound ostentatiously. Said he, in memory of ceaseless Communist propaganda about imperialist Wall Street: "I wanted to see what my 'masters' looked like." At City Hall ceremonies, he turned the talk away from himself by extolling other returned prisoners on the platform with...
...Commissioner Herbert Hoover, came back a confirmed believer in collective security. In 1921 Hoover became Secretary of Commerce under Warren Harding and brought Herter to Washington as his secretary. But Chris had nothing but contempt for the Harding Administration ("Washington is a dirty kitchen," he wrote later, "where cockroaches abound"), and he began to look around for a way out. The way came when he moved to Boston to become the salaryless co-editor and co-owner of Henry Ward Beecher's old magazine of opinion, the Independent...
...Britain's literary leprechaun, the late Norman (South Wind) Douglas, many more bored people from the hectic capitals of the world have sought to get away from it all on Capri. They have succeeded only in bringing it all with them. Lavish hotels, boites and bistros, now abound on the island. Tree-lined walks that once soothed lonely philosophers have turned into a midway featuring the most expensive and expendable freaks on earth. Black velvet bullfighters' pants, a strapless bra, a conical hat seemingly made of macaroni, and masses of straw junk-jewelry are conservative evening wear...