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...tell: it may also be a "mask of fear" and "the last resort of the non-achiever." This is simply to say what has always been known-that dirty words are not always to be taken literally. As Dr. Hartogs prefers to put it in psychiatric jargon: "Even the crudest obscenities are sometimes circuitous in terms of the patient's true intent." Or the doctor's. Years ago, in his celebrated essay 'Lars Porsena...
...Wigglings." For all the popularity of his works, Sandburg never fared well in academe. Critic Edmund Wilson observed of the Lincoln biography: "There are moments when one is tempted to feel that the crudest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg." A kind of pseudo-folksy affectation came into some of Sandburg's work. Such criticism never troubled the poet. He was an old-fashioned storyteller, and when an interviewer once mentioned modern poetry, Sandburg snorted: "I say to hell with the new poetry. Sometimes...
...contem poraries under the table, his version of events tended to survive longer than anyone else's. The famous, ponderous six-volume biography by Moneypenny and Buckle, published in 1920, often fell prey to this charm beyond the grave. It also abetted the myth-later given its crudest expression in the George Arliss film of 1929-of Dizzy as a brilliant theatrical Jew, triumphing over early poverty and snobbery to create the British empire singlehanded and present it to Queen Victoria like a posy of primroses...
...decision to use naval shelling will likely turn March from the safest to the crudest month for the Communists. The fire-directional-control computers on U.S. warships make Navy guns the most accurate conventional weapons available...
...remained for Southern California to suffer the crudest fate of all. All the Trojans did was win-edging Arkansas 70-67 and Illinois 73-72 in the Los Angeles Basketball Classic. And what did that earn them? A berth in the finals against Lew Alcindor (TIME, Dec. 16) and his No. 1-ranked U.C.L.A. Bruins...