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...only one of his younger colleagues who felt that he put more emphasis on facts for their won sake than we thought necessary or wise for a student of literature. But if one went to him with a new idea or a new interpretation, he did not dismiss it, even though it might not be the kind of thing in which he was primarily interested. He understood at once what one was trying to do, and his common sense gave sharpness and definition to one's ideas, so that they could be seen with fresh clarity and balance. Two years...
...unbending, aloof. Impersonally courteous, he never descends to personalities, never lets his collar wilt when the questioning is hot, seldom raises his voice, but never wavers. The result is that Congress is often antagonistic. A few Congressmen have a grudging admiration for him. Many, particularly on the Republican side, dismiss him in angry words, usually adding that he is a doddering...
...seemed inevitable that U.S. and German forces would clash in the Atlantic. But no observer could claim that U.S. public opinion was prepared for a struggle of the magnitude of the one that was in the making. It was a great question whether the U.S. public would not dismiss, as a manufactured "incident," the first conflict that came...
Graves & Hodge are literary men rather than historians, yet their opinions are blindest when they talk of arts & letters. They dismiss all photography except the journalistic and the strictly scientific; they hear no difference between hot jazz and commercial swing; they dismiss the important German and Russian films of the '20s as a high-brow rage. D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley are disposed of as writers who did too much reading; T. S. Eliot as an author of ultra-chichi -vers-de-société; W. H. Auden as a slick eclectic who "perhaps never wrote...
...Lampert's letter has apparently stirred up a nest of troubled consciences including that of his roommate, Mr. Nassau. The latter brazenly attempts to dismiss the incident as a "prank," but he forgets that the following facts have been submitted to the University authorities: (1) That Lampert was beaten up, (2) That one of the attackers had never met Lampert, (2) That both were members of the YCL, (4) That Lampert had been threatened with physical violence by members of the YCL during the last three months for his political oppositions to them...