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...because there is an organized society to make dishonesty unprofitable. But what is there to make national dishonesty--or aggression or whatever--unprofitable? Nothing that is evident to the eyes of the majority; therefore when, in the crisis of war, nationalism comes rampant to the fore, we say "A fig for rules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERNATIONALISM | 1/20/1922 | See Source »

...McLane is not bound, either by ignorance or inclination, to any one time or place or subject, and the best proof of this is in the excellent balance of his book. It contains one long poem, "Cassandra". a rather shorter one entitled "The Fig Tree", and many sonnets and miscellaneous poems of varying length. At the end of the volume is a sequence of poems some of which appeared in his previous work "Spindrift, forming an elegy...

Author: By C. Macv., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF CHRISTMAS 1921 POETRY BURLESQUE HISTORY BIOGRAPHY | 12/16/1921 | See Source »

...Fig Tree" Mr. McLane retells the famous story of Christ's anger from the Fig Tree's point of view, as it were. No interpretation can ever rob the legend of its unfairness and its pettiness, and those who accept it must do so with blinded or winking eyes. Mr. McLane is the first to reject it openly and convincingly, but of course the logical answer to his poem is that the legend from its very incompatibility is patently a lie, and reproach should be directed not against the victim but against the fabricators of it. As a piece...

Author: By C. Macv., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF CHRISTMAS 1921 POETRY BURLESQUE HISTORY BIOGRAPHY | 12/16/1921 | See Source »

...jumps in it her modesty may be dubious, but she is decent. But there can be no doubt of the immodesty of one who goes half naked. . . . If I understand your gliding scale of Modesty, the most petticoats dance in the shortest petticoats, and the purest of all in fig-leaves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF-REVIEWS-JOTS AND TITLES | 1/14/1921 | See Source »

...justice of his complaint Lampy, to the gratification of his many faithful readers, proceeds to give an idea of what he means by modern wit. Classicism may be very well in literature, but in the realm of humor, the modern commuter prefers something smacking less of Adam and the fig leaf. His efforts easily outrank former issues and vie with that masterpiece of 1918, the Graduates Number. We are told that poetry is that art dealing with the emotion through the imagination. In that case Lampy's reputation as a bard is firmly established, for by no other route have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Versailles Number of Lampoon Voices Unspoken Words of All | 1/30/1919 | See Source »

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