Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard men can have their squabbles with the police and censors if they want to. Most of Boston censorship is so silly that more words are wasted in futile attempts to defend it from a reasonable point of view than Harvey Allen could include in a novel. It's Harvard's worry that the Athens of America is surrounded by barbarians and prudes unresponsive to their culture...
...Fair in Chicago, but Cummings is somewhat less satirical than of yore, though, to be sure, he was never in the great tradition, since as a satirist he is unique in that he attacks people so powerful as to be indifferent (e.g., Comrade Stalin) or too weak to defend themselves (e.g., be-spectacled Radcliffe girls, professors leading castrated pups down Brattle and Kirkland Streets, tired business men, etc.) As a lyricist, on the other hand, he is the same as ever--No. 55 is the high spot--and many another minor poet would be proud of such a line...
...Manhattan last week, a crowd of 18,000 jammed Madison Square Garden to watch two hard-hitting little lightweights scuffle for the world championship which Champion Barney Ross last month decided he had grown too heavy to defend. One was stocky, frog-faced Tony Canzoneri, who held the title for three years before losing it to Ross two years ago. The other was Lou Ambers of Herkimer, N. Y., a tough, courageous little boxer who was" Canzoneri's sparring partner in 1933. Said Canzoneri: "You've got what it takes to become a champion...
...only four-volume Dictionary of Jewish Atrocities is published in Germany by silver-haired, retired Col. Ulrich Fleischhauer with but one restriction: it can be sold only to members of the Nazi Party. Last week Colonel Fleischhauer turned up in Berne, Switzerland to defend four Swiss Nazis charged with libel for circulating the notorious, forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion (TIME, Nov. 12). Not disconcerted by the fact that the Protocols are forgeries, Colonel Fleischhauer thundered, "They are in the Jewish spirit! Who can deny Jews aspire to that world domination set forth in the Protocols? Jews take world...
...chart of the U. S. war psychosis is carefully factual, but to unregenerate patriots it may seem pro-German, or at least anti-Ally. Says he: "The merits of the European struggle are beyond [the book's] scope, and it is no part of my purpose either to defend the German cause or to attack that of the Allies. Since it deals with an episode profoundly influenced by a passionate acceptance of the Entente case, much of it is necessarily devoted to a criticism of that case. . . ." Author Millis determinedly refrains from diagnosing the disease, but his unexpressed diagnosis...