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...biggest noise in an empty barrel for the year," said Clifton Fadiman in the New Yorker. "He is to me like God," wrote an awestruck Freshman in the Confidential Guide poll last spring. "The world's foremost sociologist," was the opinion of a professor in a midwestern university. In panning Sorokin's book on "Social and Cultural Dynamics," Fadiman referred to Harvard's Department of Sociology as a "White Russian WPA." But Professor Sorokin, who is head of that WPA, began his career by being just as red as the rest of his intellectual, revolutionary friends. Back...
They were not the only confused people. Awaiting them at the dinner were Harper's able, amiable President Cass Canfield; Clifton Paul Fadiman (Information Please), who was master of ceremonies; some dozen Manhattan publishers; 1,500 guests who raised $14,000 for the work of the Exiled Writers Committee. But Exhibits Mann and Werfel did not show...
...quizzes entertaining adult stuff. Questions flung at the tiny intelligentsia were selected by TIME'S Chicago News Bureau chief, Sidney James, who was interlocutor for the Quiz Kids until NBC deposed him on the ground that his magazine connection made him too much of a rival for Clifton Fadiman...
...novel, Men of Good Will, is like reading backfiles of French newspapers from Oct. 6, 1908. The New York Times's hardworking Critic Ralph Thompson once remarked in a fit of exasperation that Remains' "theory of fiction is almost intolerable." But The New Yorker's Clifton Fadiman has stuck to his opinion that Men of Good Will "is the Comedie Humaine of and for the 20th Century." Tired critics and trustful critics have divided over the question whether the finished job (in 27 volumes, as planned) will rank as one of the great novels of modern times...
...classification: "Wind, Sand and Stars," by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, is an exciting selection of reminiscences from the life of a great flier. The author's "Night Flight" will be remembered as a splendid short novel, dealing with aviation. . . "I Believe", edited and with an introduction by Clifton Fadiman. Mr. Fadiman has collected a series of personal credos from various minds of our time, ranging from H. K. Mencken to Bertrand Russell. . . . And John Sloan's "Gist of Art" is a provocative discussion of the theory and practice of art by an American painter of unquestionable ability. . . Bellamy Partridge...