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...Deal. Cinemactress Bainter impersonates the widow of an anti-New Deal Washington newspaper publisher. She has vague resemblances to the Washington Times-Herald's Cissie Patterson, an overstuffed mansion, an illusory heart ailment, a raffish son (Richard Ney), a musical-comedy daughter (Jean Rogers) and. though the epithet is never directly hurled, there is more than a hint that the Widow Bainter is a Republican. The war against her is waged with practically everything but brass knuckles and a commando raid. It proceeds by a series of psychological crises. Some of them...
...ever seen. If you can picture Concord looking as though cowboys would come hooting through the Common, yu might believe the town is east of the Hudson. And the hero, Ronnie Colman, who graduated from Harvard Law School at an amazingly undraftable age, is plagued with the epithet "Sonny." Acceptance of the bogus New England village apparently implies belief in Colman as "Sonny." Cary Grant tries and tires his old, set role, and Jean Arthur still has a hair-do which goes up and down like a broken window-shade. Errors, slight in themselves, have a cumulative effect which shatters...
Most hilarious chapter is about Hollywood, where at one revolutionary banquet, the high-priced cinemarxists raised their champagne glasses in a toast before bursting into "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!" Most important chapter is the one on red-baiting. Lyons points out that the epithet "red-baiter," uttered in shrill tones of ethical exaltation, has a paralyzing effect on almost all liberal critics of Communism, is one of the most effective silencing tricks in the versatile Communist repertory. The Lyons recipe for overcoming it: "Walk up boldly to the terrible hobgoblin and . . . say, 'Boo!'' He warns liberals...
...current Harvard Progressive. Somewhat less polite but equally positive, the student editors disagree with Mr. Hicks. "Disagree" is putting it mildly, for in fact they accuse him of a "lack of faith in democracy". Among us good leftists, this is the unkindest cut of all. It is an epithet which is arrived at in rather interesting fashion...
...elements of Communism and Hitlerism"; denounced her "innocent, wholehearted, humane enthusiasm" as "only a disguise." To Mrs. Roosevelt's defense leaped the smart-chart New Yorker, which has social sensibilities if not a social sense. After a mixed tribute to the Pegler prose ("a nice combination of ginmill epithet and impeccable syntax"), The New Yorker deplored "discussing the First Lady as if she were a crooked wrestling promoter...