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Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad of the University of London is by turns persuasive, glib, caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed," can arrive at truth. A praiser of times past, he dislikes Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Stravinsky music, surrealist painting, modern advertising. His objection to science appears to be that it does not provide enough digestive pills of wisdom to go with its banquet of knowledge...
Called to the stand to substantiate his story, Convict Dwyer first collapsed. Next day he took the stand, cocky and glib. When defense lawyers asked him what had happened to Mrs. Littlefield, who was not mentioned in the Carroll indictment, young Dwyer replied that Carroll had strangled her with Dwyer's belt in a remote spot in the hills. "I turned my face away," said Paul Dwyer...
...puts a stop to the war between Great Britain and France with as much zeal and dispatch as Lysistrata put a stop to the war between Athens and Sparta. The Impregnable Women is less light-headed than either Lysistrata or Author Linklater's earlier books. It exhibits his glib facility for treating outrageous events, but his admirers may be disconcerted to find that he possesses a moral sense. And they will agree that Aristophanes did the same thing better, with music, a long time...
...might remind the Herald Tribune--Since they are so glib about reminding us--that the best way to undo the work of Washington, Madison and the other founding fathers is to deride as "another how!" the anxious protests of those who see their most cherished liberties about to be legislated away. The Tribune errs dangerously when it adopts even for a moment the mudslinging tactics formerly peculiar only to labor leaders. When we reflect let us remember that temporary lapses like the Tribune's may tend to become permanent and that this is no time for any loosening...
...critical reader will find this part more difficult to swallow. Altogether too glib is Mr. Hicks' defense of the U. S. S. R. in which he admits that the right to criticize the government, the right to advocate a change of government have been denied the Russian people, and adds: "these are not rights that many people want." His Utopian conception of a Communist America is a little naive, and his blithe disregard for minority rights and the law of the land is sometimes disturbing...