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...disease worth investigating, but it is not too many Communist teachers. Their number is so small that it constitutes no menace to a society already so zealously anti-Communist. What, ought to be investigated is the number of teachers terrified of purges and investigation, of men who cower and bootlick and teach less than they know because they are in danger of losing their jobs if anybody so much as points an accusing finger at them. When teachers start to withhold knowledge, it's time for students to stop going to school...
What the Congressmen ought to investigate and expose is the number of teachers terrified of purges and investigations, of men who cower and bootlick and teach less than they know because they are in grave danger of losing their jobs if anybody so much as points an accusing finger at them. When teachers start to withhold knowledge it is about time for students to stop going to school...
...writers who did too much reading; T. S. Eliot as an author of ultra-chichi -vers-de-société; W. H. Auden as a slick eclectic who "perhaps never wrote an original line." If there were an award for that book which does the least to bootlick or otherwise seduce the reader and to cheapen its own contents, The Long Week End would be an admirable candidate...
...years (1924-32) the Stalin dictatorship exercised such a stifling censorship over Russian authors that no independent creative writer now dares raise his voice in Russia. Eastman sees Russian letters now as "a mirthless desert waste inhabited by a few sincere fanatics and a horde of unexampled experts in bootlick, blackmail and blatherskite." As victims of this Inquisition he cites the late Sergei Yessenin and Vladimir Maiakovsky (both suicides) ; the conversion of "the mirthful satirist, Valentine Kataev . . . into a faithful Sunday School moralist of the five-year plan"; the groveling recantation of Panteleimon Romanov; the humiliation of Boris Pilnyak, president...
...situation is far worse in Italy. There all the correspondents bootlick Prime Minister Mussolini or are thrown out. In Spain the censorship of Dictator Primo de Rivera is theoretically absolute, but the indolent Spanish temperament allows correspondents to smuggle out pretty much what they please...
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