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There is perhaps more quiet medicament for negrophobes in Margaret Walker's For My People than in any other book of Negro verse yet published. Poetess Walker, a 27-year-old, Alabama-born English teacher, avoids the callow literary posturing that is the curse of most Negro versifiers. In this, her first book, she writes with civilized simplicity and dignity about the humanity of her people. The effect, whether in her psalmlike lyrics, her stark ballads or her biting sonnets, is often solemn and beautiful, like a black frost in the deep South...
...book is made up of six stories, four of them long, none of them dull, all as needle-toothed and portentous as so many black cats. Among them they put together the tortuous, semiautobiographical figure of Margaret Sargent, a youngwoman-about-Manhattan, from the callow moment in which she breaks her first marriage to the hour when, twisting on a psychoanalyst's sofa like an unable phoenix in hot ashes, she discovers in her childhood the source of her emptiness...
...Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man examines the callow liberalism and the not-so-united-frontage of the '30s in the presumably hard, gemlike flame of the heroine's radicalism (Trotskyish) and personal integrity (self-righteous). There are some eloquent paragraphs on The Old Man, as Trotsky's disciples used to call him; some sore and salutary ones on the queasy performance of the liberal weeklies during the Moscow Trials; some sour clinical notes on the habits of college-bred intellectuals...
...first novel, 28-year-old Daniel Lundberg uses an idiom of his own. At once callow and articulate, it can make things seem simultaneously ridiculous and touching without showing a trace of the oldtime Tarkington smirk. It is the almost perfect tongue for the self-revelations of a Dedham high-school senior...
...attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being the President's son, some people would be calling me a crook no matter what business I had entered, providing I'd been successful." Admitting that radio is still a bit callow, Schechter is certain its newscasting is reasonably mature. Proud of his job, he says expansively: "It is like being the city editor of the whole goddam world...