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MINORITY REPORT-Bernard DeVoto-Little, Brown...
...West after World War I came Critic Bernard DeVoto. He burst upon the literati of the effete East like The Terrible-Tempered Mr. Bang. At the top of his form Critic DeVoto suggested a geyser ejecting a column of live steam, accompanied by deep, sometimes rather incoherent rumblings, hisses, falling rocks, lava, fuliginous fumes. Readers of The Saturday Review of Literature began eagerly to await this weekly display. Later the same phenomenon could be observed in The Easy Chair, literary section of Harpers Magazine...
...exact causes of Bernard DeVoto's chronic exasperation eluded many people. Critic DeVoto claimed that it was his passion for straight thinking. Said he: "I have not objected to the use of abstractions but only to the use of abstractions in the illusion that they are bricks, girders, and tie bars. I have not objected to the use of theories but only to their use in ways that produce what are called higher truths. I have not objected to simplifications but only to the use of simplifications in order to satisfy the lust for oneness by denying facts, experience...
Furthermore, while we had no notice of the publication of the Dictionary of American Biography in time to secure the inclusion of our claims in this connection, we discover the very interesting fact that the alleged biography of Joseph Smith in that compilation was written by Bernard DeVoto who, we note, was born in Ogden, Utah, and who, it is a safe conjecture, either is or was a Utah Mormon, or of Mormon parentage...
...Reader Smith is entitled to believe his grandfather Joseph Smith. Many others believe Brigham Young, who declared when Mormon polygamy was openly proclaimed at Salt Lake City that Joseph Smith had 27 secret wives besides Emma. Critic Bernard DeVoto (son of a Notre Dame mathematician, a Mormon mother) admitted that Joseph Smith had only five "official" children by his "official" wife Emma...