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Through the Looking Glass. In San Diego, Federal Rent Director John Arvin got a complaint from a tenant that his place was worth more than the rent ceiling...
...Communists could count among their allies such names as Granville Hicks, Newton Arvin, Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford, Matthew Josephson, Kyle Crichton (Robert Forsythe), Malcolm Cowley, Donald Ogden Stewart, Erskine Caldwell, Dorothy Parker, Archibald MacLeish, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, John Steinbeck, George Soule, many another...
WHITMAN-Newton Arvin-Macmillan ($2.75). First clear exposition of Walt's political beliefs and actions...
This vital and fundamental struggle between the traditional conservatism and the, to Whitman, mystical desire for social reform in the mind of the editor-poet is sharply, forcefully described by Mr. Arvin, who makes of him a dual personality. One part of Whitman is the government clerk, the traditionalist and the conventionalist; the other is the poet who instinctively fears for the future of democracy in an age of money-chasing, corrupt politicians, of oppressed industrial workers. On practically every social and political question, Whitman tends to diverge within himself. He writes paeans on the equality of all human beings...
...Arvin avoids doing what many biographers have done to their subjects. He does not go too far in evaluating the contemporary comment and criticism voiced by the socialists of Whitman's period in an attempt to illuminate the attitudes of Whitman himself. He does not make of Whitman an intellectually unified individual at the expense of verity, he does not even make him an intellectual in the restricted sense of the term. For once a biographer has finished his work without creating a god or devil out of the subject. Whitman was neither a radical nor a reactionary...