Word: dialecticism
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The fact that Spring Song belies its gay title does not indicate that its intent is fraudulent. It is a sad, but honest anecdote, wisely acted and quietly written, in which Francine Larrimore, tending the Solomon sidewalk cigar stand with puzzled petulance, gives her best performance since Brief Moment. No...
It is coming to be taken for granted that, next to Wall Street, the present Soviet government has more bad guesses on international issues chalked up to its credit than any other important body extant. This time they were not guilty of picking the wrong horse: they seem to have...
The two remaining articles are better stuff. Mr. Chase's "The House Plan and the Final Clubs" adequately treats a subject of local interest and importance. His analysis of the situation seems sound and his figures will be useful in a member of ways. His objectivity in a number so...
The Cornhill Magazine had its day, and the Yellow Book, and the Little Review; with tear in eye one will soon add the American Mercury to the list of extinguished balls of fire. The October issue contains only two contributions from Mr. Mencken; rumor bath it that he has withdrawn...
MR. LASKI has steadfastly refused to accept the label of "Marxist," but it is doubtful if anyone, with the permissible exception of John Strachey, has yet written a more brilliant defense of the general Communist position. Though on matters of dialectic and detail, he differs noticeably from the orthodoxies of...