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WILD ASSES-James G. Dunton- Small, Maynard ($2.00). Mr Dunton an immature Harvard graduate, smudges painfully. He has a turgid mind, a high-school style, scant humor, literary myopia. Concentrating on an underground foreground, he dimly depicts crass youths guzzling bad gin, shooting craps, reading cinema magazines, swapping low stories, frequenting dives and brothels, being obscurely restless and messing up their young lives generally. One logy character plays football, stays respectable, is a college success. Another (the author) achieves a half-baked perception of his contemporaries as Wild Asses and Blunderbrats, laboriously adduces the law of compensation to flappers...
Professor Lord said: "The German election has been strikingly destitute of dramatic quality. There were no landslides for any one party such as occurred in England and the United States. The issues involved were surely great enough. In the foreground was the question of the acceptance or repudiation of the Dawes plan, and behind loomed the still greater issue of the Monarchy or the Republic, of the ideals symbolized in the old red, white and black banner on one side and the new red, black and gold banner on the other, but these issues are not new to the German...
...housing of animals and grain, with a farm wagon in front of it, a maple tree behind it, he is in the latter class?an academician. If, on the other hand, he sees a toppling multicolored cube atilt against an oblong vegetable, with a grisly wheeled mechanism in the foreground, he sees what few believe. Such a one may be a member of the artist colony of Woodstock, Mass., whose pictures were last week on exhibit at the Boston Art Club. These artists are the Whigs of modern painting, an aesthetic Jacobin Club. Followers of the innovations of Derain...
...firm endorsement of LaFollette, by its equally firm repudiation of Davis and Bryan as well as of Coolidge and Dawes, it has joined one political party more forcefully and more fully than it has ever 'done in the past. This stand presages the retirement from the foreground of Samuel Gompers, who for years has fought to keep the Federation out of politics. Formally, the Federation maintains its usual stand. Formally, Samuel Gompers retains his leadership. Actually...
Politics is politics?and something more. It was not politics but death which made Calvin Coolidge President of the U. S. Similarly, it has not been politics but health which during the last six months has prevented Mr. La Follette from occupying his accustomed place in the political oratorical foreground...