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...clerk or farm worker who preaches after hours. His sermons take for granted complete loyalty to the Stalin State and he glibly cites from the works of Marx and Lenin passages which suit his purposes. Indeed Soviet newsorgans have been complaining that often the village priest seems able to confound the village Communist leader by superior erudition in the works of Stalin himself, greater familiarity with the lengthy Party texts...
Stay, and confound her tears and her shrill cryings...
Dear to the heart of Publisher William Randolph Hearst is the notion that he can thwart and confound his enemies by the simple process of keeping their names out of his 33 newspapers. Two months ago Publisher Hearst added to his editors' list of unmentionables the name of Stanford University. Since Stanford is a prime athletic newsmaker, Hearstlings struggled over their sports pages, concocted such lame evasions as ''the Indians," "men from the Farm," ''the University at Palo Alto.'" What purpose his ban served only Publisher Hearst knew. What prompted it, however...
...second (American Song) last year provoked hyperbole from both directions. Some literary lobbyists thought they heard a great big new voice, thought they saw "somebody walking in America in proud shoes." Left-wing critics thought they spied a little black Fascist in his wordy woodpile. As if to confound their politics, in Break the Heart's Anger Poet Engle has taken care to announce his revolutionary sympathies. And from various European vantage-points (almost every poem has a different postmark) he hurls rude remarks toward his native land. He calls the Statue of Liberty "you skirt," Manhattan "you great...
...thick-headedness from becoming too evident by dropping several hints as to what the proper answer was to some question about Germanic umlaut. Well, we went ''round and around," but it didn't work; I didn't catch on. Finally, in exasperation, he shouted, "Confound you, can't you see what I'm trying to suggest...