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...Voto's real grievance? This indignation at other people's errors which seems to prevent him from stating his own case, this continual boiling up about other people's wild statements which stimulates him to even wilder statements of his own. . . ." Critic Wilson Follett, who praised De Voto as a "gadfly to all manner of intellectual softies," hinted that he had outgrown his controversial gift, suggested it was time for him to quit, that he might now write "a superb work of the imagination on the scale of Anthony Adverse but incomparably better written and more soundly...
James Laughlin is not alone in his quest for the purging of our language. At the end of his selection of the last year's best books, Clifton Fadiman made a plea to young authors that they write with more care towards the use of words. Wilson Follett complained that the definition of a sentence as "a complete thought expressed in words" had become obsolete. The economist, Stuart Chase, in a recent provocative article, urged that the way to make language a better vehicle for ideas was to pursue the science of semantics, which teaches that the two main sins...
...March Atlantic Monthly commences inauspiciously with a plaintive and unintentionally amusing article by Wilson Follett, entitled "The Forgotten Man to His President." This unfortunate beginning, however, is rectified by the featured article, "The Revolution in science," by J. w. N. Sullivan. This critical exposition of the scientific philosophies of Eddington, Jeans, and Millikan, succeeds in avoiding most of the errors of modern popularizers of science. Not sufficiently accurate, perhaps, to conform to the standards of Professor Whitehead, it is clearly written and stimulates the reader's thought; it is an excellent introduction to the rather febrile speculations which have grown...
Died. Edwin Follett Carter, 22, Dartmouth graduate, son of Edwin Farnham Carter, vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; in Brookings, S. Dak. He was on his way to Alaska with Walter Sherman Gifford Jr., 14, son of A. T. & T.'s president. Young Gifford, just learning to drive, failed to note a turn in the road, drove the car into a ditch. Carter was thrown out, his neck broken. Young Gifford, his left arm crushed, was whisked to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
...these Apes gathered. The fact that Satirist Lewis' account of their doings slipped the censor can only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length. The chief gist of the Apes' preoccupations is revealed in the opening scene, where, outside Lady Fredigonde Follett's London mansion, "the policeman could be observed at his usual occupation known as Oh-dear-Mabel!, which consists in a repeated readjustment of the stiff melton trouser-fork, by a simultaneous flexion of both legs.'' What "Oh-dear-Mabel!" is for the policeman, the Artistic Life...