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Sergeant Bunt is by far the most endearing and best drawn character in this scandalous novel-perhaps because he is a figment of Author Menen's vivid, jocular imagination. Most of the other characters in The Abode of Love have not this advantage. They are real, and so are most of the activities around which Menen builds this rococo piece of history told "in the form of a novel." The Rev. Henry James Prince (who takes the scabrous Bunt under his wing and is the principal character) was a flesh-and-blood renegade clergyman. In the 18403 Prince founded...
...understand perfectly the American fear of militant Communism and of possible Chinese aggression throughout Asia," said Attlee, as if the Chinese invasion of North Korea were a figment of American imagination. But, he added in the most astonishing remark of the day, "here is a revolutionary government which is undoubtedly supported by the mass of the people . . . The Communists have offered China Nationalism and the land...
Stassen's testimony was refuted yesterday when State Department officials called the points "a figment of his imagination...
These ten men--even if they are only a multiplied figment of Mr. Beveridge's mind and are really only one or two men--these ten men may be unreasonably suspicious. But why should we stigmatize the holders of unpopular opinions for being suspicious? And why should University Hall, in the interests of its own convenience, work a hardship on such a group of men whose existence in the unhealthy atmosphere of today should be jealously guarded? The Dean's Office has allowed a small matter of bureaucratic efficiency to outweigh much larger considerations...
...They've extincted themselves"-an ungrammatical statement attributed to me by your correspondent-is strictly a figment of his imagination ... I didn...