Word: devoto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernard DeVoto is a historian and ex-Harvard lecturer who makes his real money by writing slick-magazine love fiction (usually under the pen name of John August) and gets his prejudices off his chest, with none of the historian's usual judicial balance, in Harper's Magazine. A few weeks ago, in Harper's, he proposed a public campaign of passive rebellion against J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...like a country where it's nobody's damned business what magazines anyone reads, what he thinks, whom he has cocktails with . . . where no college-trained flatfeet collect memoranda about us," wrote DeVoto. " . . . If it is my duty as citizen to tell what I know about someone, I will perform that duty under subpoena ... I will not discuss anyone in private with any government investigator...
...this, Harper's editors added an admiring little note about "Horatio" DeVoto and the hope that every devoted reader would line up behind...
Last week G-Man Hoover disposed of DeVoto with a passing blow ("I do not care to dignify Mr. DeVoto's compilation of half truths, inaccuracies, distortions, and misstatements") and swung on the editors. In a letter to them, published in the current Harper's, he asked...
...Devoto, well-known author and critic, is at present conducting the "Easy Chair" feature of Harper's Magazine. Among his books are The Year of Decision: 1846" and "Mark Twain's America...