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...which he defiantly proclaimed himself a "true paladin of my Führer" and declared that, if he had the choice, he would do the whole thing over again. Generally, his courtroom poise was much better than it had been twelve years ago, when Communist Georgi Dimitroff made a fool of him at the Reichstag fire trial...
...machine had won the first round. When the lie detector was introduced, its grim little pointer spotted surprised liars almost as soon as they opened their mouths. Hardened virtuosos who could fool a cop, a clergyman-or even a wife-were no match for the polygraph...
Ezra Pound, in Washington awaiting trial for treason (pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome), was freshly reindicted for 19 overt acts, and became the center of a literary flurry in Manhattan. Pulitzer Prizewinner Conrad Aiken considered him "less traitor than fool", E. E. Cummings whipped up a paraphrasing of "To thine own self be true. . . ." ; Louis Untermeyer favored life imprisonment among the works of Eddie Guest. Random House hastily dropped Pound from a forthcoming poetry anthology...
Henley fought with vigor from the editorial chairs of some half-dozen magazines, including the famed National Observer. He had three great enemies: 1) the new esthetic movement, 2) Socialism (which he termed "the Dominion of the Common Fool") and 3) the powerful Victorian convention that all writing must be tailored to suit young ladies...
Last year Lewis engaged in a verbal slugging match with Harvard's crotchety critic Bernard DeVoto, who (in The Literary Fallacy) had attacked Lewis and other writers of the '205, had urged that the epithet "fool" be introduced into the vocabulary of literary criticism. "Fool," cried Novelist Lewis...