Word: balabanoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showed "inexcusable sloppiness." Wrote Brown University's Labor Economist Philip Taft: "You deserve a vote of thanks from the Communist Party." Reviewing the bibliography in the New Leader, the I.L.G.W.U.'s Dr. John A. Sessions noted astonishing omissions. Example: the morumentally anti-Communist autobiography of Angelica Balabanoff, onetime first secretary of the Communist International. The bibliography, wrote Sessions, "has no room for the works which have hurt the Communists most...
...precious hot-house blooms of Ronald Fir-bank (TIME, Nov. 21, 1949), an oldfashioned, discursive style, an artful way of saying exactly what a writer is up to while explaining at the same time how he got that way. Sometimes, as in writing about fifth-rate Poet Angelica Balabanoff, Wilson's ivory-tower reflections lead him straight into nonsense: "We have lost medieval Latin and 18th Century French, and have not yet arrived at Basic English; and in the meantime we have to do the best we can talking all the languages at once, like Marx and Engels...