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...TIME serious in its Oct. 22 description of Walt Whitman as an "anarchic old yawper?" Does TIME dismiss then such treasures of American literature as "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "O Captain! My Captain!" "Bivouac on a Mountain Side," and "Song of Myself" to be the mere yawping of an anarchist...
...assure you," he said, while Bill Boyle stared glumly at the ceiling, "that if there is anyone in headquarters who should not be there, or whose hands are not clean, I shall dismiss him . . ." Then, with a series of broom-strokes, he: 1) demanded, within 48 hours, a detailed description of every committee employee's job, salary and political references; 2) promised to weed out "supernumeraries"; 3) froze all committee expenditures until a new executive committee could audit the budget; 4) declared he would serve without salary. (Boyle was paid $35,000 a year.) "May no act of mine...
Last week, the Senate passed a milder measure which incorporated a bill outlawing the Communist Party with one requiring college presidents to dismiss Communists from their teaching staffs and another demanding loyalty oaths of all lawyers. The Senate also suggested court action against organizations and persons advocating overthrow of the government, but did not mention Communists...
...bill which requires college presidents to dismiss any faculty member who "advocates the overthrow of the government by force or violence" was yesterday approved, 181 to 46, by the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The bill now goes to the Senate...
Partisans of the movie are free to dismiss this as carping, especially since I am a male reviewing what is undoubtedly a very feminine picture. "The River," a study of adolescent girls written by a sensitive woman novelist, seems to hang together better for those who can identify more closely with the protagonists. I have a feeling that more women than men will consider "The River" a truly great picture...