Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Matthiessen's exposition of difficult passages is always plausible, even if one may dissent from his opinion in specific places. He is perhaps over-generous to his friends for their in- genious interpretations. It is somewhat disconcerting to come so often to acknowledgement of indebtedness for conjectures. At the final tally, it must be admitted that into his book Professor Matthiessen has distilled the essence of all previous criticism of Eliot. Sometimes the distillation is effected by contradictions, of opponents, sometimes by amplifications of small hints in other writers, but always it is undertaken by a relentless and remorseless...
...will find any English artists of absolutely the first rank except in architecture. "In Wren we did produce, as it seems to me, the greatest artistic personality of our nation--a man that one can put beside the great Italians and perhaps above any of the French." Of course, dissent will be forthcoming; what about Hogarth? Hogarth "was a propagandist for morals, and the propagandists never even wants to discover the truth; he is in too great a hurry to makes his case against the fools and the wicked, having, as a rule, no idea how like the fools...
...will be seen that Mr. Dawson stimulates dissent, and such stimulation in these days is rare...
...Social Improvement in a passionate way. He still is. Yet he is unconvinced of the divine nature of any man and accepts President Roosevelt's New Deal with certain reservations which his friends are sure will make startling news this winter. As set forth in his famed dissent in the Oklahoma Ice case (TIME, April 4, 1932), he believes that the states should have a free hand as laboratories of economic experimentation. Yet the Federal experiment of NRA displeases him by its sheer size...
...majority-organization to represent all. The strike, he said, should be indefinitely postponed and, if the steel industry accepted these terms, canceled. With unwonted vigor Mr. Green turned on the delegates and declared: "I insist upon your acting favorably upon this proposition." They did-with only a murmur of dissent. Highly pleased, Messrs. Green and Tighe entrained for Washington to put the union's offer to Madam Secretary Perkins and the President. Said Mr. Tighe: "We are not going to be sold out by Roosevelt and we know it." Meanwhile in Washington President Roosevelt was giving...