Word: hating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some brilliant poetry. "Lovers as Nihilists" is not in that category. The poem begins by scorning the artificiality "the contrived symbol the sly image the trick of metaphor" of the artist who reduces "passion to a poet's syllable." It ends by culogizing the blunt emotions of love and hate--"the hate that shows us naked . . . the love that cleaves us open-eyed, unmasked, unversed, alive. Voiceless poets released from artifice, whose statement sings in this most sensual peace." One hates to accuse Mr. Abrahams of hypocrisy; but when he lauds the poet "released from artifice," the accusation of poor...
Being an alert reader of your columns, I regret to find an overdose of letters written to you expressing blatantly a pro-Nazi, or at best a pre-war type of Irish, hate for Britain and its defenders. Let there be no mistake about it, such attitudes are contrary to America's best interests, and carry with them the seeds of distrust and discord concerning our Government. A person is either for democracy or he isn't-there is no compromise stand...
...collapse in France, the Red horror in Spain, now happily crushed but at fearful cost, for the present plight of England, for Hitler's regime in Germany as a counteroffensive and for the economic misery, confusion and breakdown in our own country. Hitlerism, which you profess to hate, was created as a defense mechanism against your hidden bosses...
...sending of a huge expeditionary force to Europe or Africa." Such an expeditionary force would not, in the Committee's opinion, be sent on the basis of careful thought of what the United States would got out of war. Instead, hostilities would be declared because of blind hate aroused by skilled propagandists and because of specific international incidents which could probably be avoided if the people in power wanted...
Ralph Blood, the senior (and narrator), is definitely not the clean-cut type-at least he would hate to think so. He reads Freud and Will Durant and Walter B. Pitkin; when his girl friend tells him she has dreamed of snakes, his eyebrows almost scalp him. His mannerisms, down to the last flickering cheek-muscle, were learned at the movies; he is as full of polysyllables as a colored preacher. His girl, at the start, is Harriet Stevens, who hopes to become a concert pianist and whose mother is in the Social Register. He and Harriet "explore each other...