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...Cynic Bromfield-Healthy Wiley first novels on the new season's lists offer an interesting comparison in The Green Bay Tree* by Louis Bromfield and The 'Education of Peter by John Wiley. They show admirably the tremendous difference in Which exists between the War and that just younger, and by generation I mean a "college generation." Both of these young men are sensitive- artistic, well-bred. They spring from more or less the same environment , and they are both, perhaps, Naturally, fond of over-sophistication. Yet, in a sense, these books are a hundred years apart. The Education...
Shaw's play is totally modernized. English, and even American slang salts the speeches of his characters. His mocking wit runs through it. Yet even Snaw's wit cannot destroy Shaw's emotion. In the writing of this play the old sinner and cynic writes himself down as an incorrigible idealist...
...tablet to be dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt records that here "Harvard's greatest alumnus" spent "four formative and fruitful years," a verdict in which all but a few will concur. But the voice of the cynic and the iconoclast will make itself heard, inquiring whether after all Roosevelt's connection with the University, or ours for that matter, has really been formative...
Thus did the crabbed cynic ridicule those who made marble mausoleums for a heap of ashes. But those of us who have never achieved living in a wine cask, insist upon at least six feet of quiet sod and an undisturbed headstone. For, as Dr. Rand has observed, the living might find some more appropriate way of honoring the dead than by carting the bones around...
...suggests the question of "who is there today that is really great?" In literature there are many prominent figures, among whom Kipling, with his genius for short stories and for verse and an occasional gift of true poetry, is the chief. In statesmanship--who is there? The cynic is apt to quote the great Disraeli, saying that "the world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians". In the art of war there is no single outstanding figure, unless the title of Marshall Foch be changed from that of a great patriot to that of a great inctician...