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...always a source of exasperation to me when I read about people like Simone de Beauvoir [I The Long March] who extol the virtues of Communism. It is remarkable that she returned to the "dirty" free world after her visit to Red China. Intellectuals of De Beauvoir's school of thought should return to the "lands of enchantment" where Marx is read instead of the Bible and love is superseded by a tractor...
...name for the Politburo) in which his favorite, Malenkov, had a prominent place. Was this a dying dictator's effort to reconstitute a party whose power he had all but destroyed? Or was it, as Khrushchev said, his way of seeking "younger" men who would do nothing "but extol...
...Examiner (circ. 246,186) are the periodic panegyrics he calls "fog creeping through the bridge" pieces; in them he ranges rhapsodically from the hills (he claims there are 30) to the weather (which he says beats sex as the city's "Topic A"). He even manages to extol such dubious assets as the city's sky-high alcoholism rate and the fleas, which, according to Caen, "bite only tourists and newcomers" because the natives are "so full of garlic." At times, Garlic Lover Caen sounds as if he had distilled his high-calorie prose from the Reader...
...most pertinent attack of all came from inside the Review itself. In this week's issue, Editor Cousins took over the editorial page to criticize Critic Ciardi's criticism and to extol Anne Lindbergh. "He has given literalness far more sovereignty than it needs or enjoys in verse." wrote Cousins. "Nor can we accept the adjective 'illiterate' when applied to Mrs. Lindbergh or her books. There are few living authors who are using the English language more sensitively or with more genuine appeal...
...most of all, they will extol the advantages of working on the CRIMSON. They will tell you that a CRIMSON competition serves even better than Gen Ed A to improve your ability to express your thoughts simply and clearly...