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Kierkegaard's literary method was to invent characters, let them work out their ways of life, publish their "diaries" and "memoirs." Stages on Life's Way gleams brilliantly as character after character cuts a new facet on that indestructible gem, love between man & woman. Part I is a memoir of a wine-sodden banquet where a gay seducer, a fashion stylist, a cynic, etc. discourse on follies of woman and love. Theirs is life's esthetic stage. The ethical is explored in Part II by a happily married essayist. "Yes, it is true, no poet will ever...
Harry Hopkins possibly excepted. Franklin Roosevelt has no one, general adviser, no "Assistant President" (Raymond Moley tried to fill the role, got booted out for his pains). Such facile young "killers" as Corcoran & Cohen understand this facet of their chief, do not sulk when they are neglected for days on end. Harold Ickes does not understand, wrings his heart because he cannot be all things all the time to Franklin Roosevelt, who nevertheless esteems and frequently consults explosive Mr. Ickes...
...action like some prophetic spectre, and its antistrophe driven home by a clique of worldly British moguls, give the drama superb and bitter satire. Never during the most intense moment in the hero's fortunes are we allowed to forget that the adventure of the mountain is but a facet, a link in the pattern of the tragedy of Everyman. Through the dramatic medium of poetry, Auden and Isherwood give a vivid universality to their characters...
...idealism high and haughtily. As such, the play warrants consideration from cynics and believers alike. Of course, stretching the Anderson thesis a point further, one can see more than a slight tinge of whooping up the Allied cause in the present war and a plea for U.S. intervention. This facet of the play's "message", if taken seriously, would probably make almost anyone writhe. But the idea is only vaguely implied...
...Donald Smith is a facet of Craft v. Industrial unionism. Messrs. Smith & Smith (usually but not always concurring with Chairman Madden) have consistently ruled that in plants where unions have been customarily organized or conducted on an all-inclusive industrial basis, crafts may not chisel out skilled segments and bargain apart from the whole. As the principal sufferer from this literal application of the Wagner Act, A.F. of L. is doing all it can to halt the practice. By no means certain that it can defeat Donald Smith's confirmation, A.F. of L. has excellent precedent for bringing corrective...