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Hugh Samuel Johnson, author of Williams of West Point, Williams on Service, The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth, was found in Washington writing A Barnyard History of the United States. The book will be built around the careers, motives and achievements of great U. S. characters...
From this you will see that the vision of me hanging around a barnyard with a bucket in my hand waiting for some old dairy cow to drop a calf is rather ridiculous. Certainly there is nothing in such a picture to impress one with the purity of our product or the desirability of taking such a mess into one's peritoneal cavity...
...dirty? To answer the man in the street in his own language, Yes. With the exception of medical books and out & out pornography, the only book of modern times that can compare with it for outspokenness in barnyard and backhouse terms is the late D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. But Ulysses is far from being "just another dirty book." Judge Woolsey decided that its purpler passages are "emetic," rather than "aphrodisiac"; that the net effect of its 768 big pages is "a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary on the inner lives...
Another chorus of quick-legged, milk-chocolate girls swing and stomp, shove and pull. A long succession of skits plays with the facts of life with the unsophistication of a barnyard. The king of tap-dancers, stocky little Bill Robinson, slaps his soles against the floor with classic virtuosity. Plump Edith Wilson, scrawny Kathryn Perry sing ably, gaily. The stage crawls with conventional Negro comedians, making fun of Negroes for white entertainment. Eddie Hunter explains to two friends the Eugene O'Neill plot of what he calls the Emperor Bones. It leads into an Emperor Jones jungle bacchanal, feathered...
...into retirement" (TIME, Aug. 14). Last week the Government of slim, shrill Generalissimo Chiang had to send a private train to bring huge, rumbling War Lord Feng triumphantly home from Chahar. He reached Peiping like a conqueror, traveling with an entire regiment as his bodyguard, grinning and cracking his barnyard jokes at "Chiang and his Government who think they can make themselves foreigners by putting on trousers, eating with knives and forks and leaping about on smooth dance floors clutching a woman...