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...easy to make friends with people whose ideas are different, whose language we find easy to misunderstand. Sometimes they feel that we live up to our American reputation for being crude. Sometimes things happen which rub us very much the wrong way. It takes good will, patience and humilty to really make friends...
...there may be less crude ways in which we can expand. Perhaps we can set up spheres of influence here and there which give us some of the results of power without all the responsibilities of ownership and government...
...basement room of a Third Avenue gallery last week hung the second Manhattan exhibition of contemporary Haitian art. Done by houseboys, chauffeurs and voodoo drummers in their spare time, the paintings were as uninhibited as they were crude. Their bright automobile-enamel colors and outlandish but occasionally forceful draftsmanship looked good to many a critic, for they made a pleasant and refreshing contrast with the alfalfa-dry fare ground out by most professional moderns. "These fellows," said one enthusiastic gallerygoer, "paint as a cock crows...
...permanent hull which future workmen will occasionally caulk but never have to dismantle. Because "he has had full access to captured enemy documents and has used them with imaginative skill as well as care, his accounts of battle action have a quality of two-sidedness which dissolves crude jingoism. In Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, as in his three earlier books (Battle of the Atlantic, North African Waters, Rising Sun in the Pacific), readers will be aware every minute that the enemy was in there too, and doing well...
...editors of Signature have failed to realize that they are dealing not with literary productions, but with the crude, unshaped, often hollow, lumps of expression that come out of the undergraduate, or "afflatus," period in a writer's development. With absolute respect for the contributors to the current issue, I'm willing to bet that six out of the seven will soon be ashamed that these fragments were ever set in type. This writing has to be done, if these folks are ever going to be writers, but there is no law which states that it must be published...