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...grip on sanity make hilarious reading. He is at his best describing his own efforts to come to terms with the world around him, a world swarming with zany people and beyond rational control. And though he introduces many engaging and diverting personalities, his best creation is himself--the craven coward, the hesitant man of the world, the would-be lady killer, who really just wants to finish reading Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic...
JAMES McD. CRAVEN...
From our unreserved support we hope there will be drawn a very sharp and salutary lesson for the so-called sportswriters of today, whose craven columns pale at the first signals of depair. When the lilacs send their lovely odors into the spring air, let these timid miscreants, like us, give their succour here at home, where it is most needed. Indeed, it is truly said, local loyalties are the finest flowers of civilization...
...that presumably links these varied souls, sects and sentiments is worshiping the false god of self, modern man's craven idol. The ammunition that Author Fitch, 59. brings to the neo-orthodox,-neo-conservative battle camp is shiny with polemical wit and brilliance, but his essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that...
JAMES McD. CRAVEN Brooklyn...