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...such earlier efforts as The Good Companions and Angel Pavement. Changeless Author Priestley is still his typically British 'arf-an'-'arf self -half an able, warmhearted craftsman whose values rest on beef and decency, half a left-of-center propagandist, who views bureaucratic Laborites and heartless boosters of free enterprise with the same beady...
Barbarous and murderous mother, Pitiless, heartless, she Threw her daughters down a well Where they died in misery...
...when we see headlines like "U.S. defaults on wheat shipments," "Farmers offered bonus to release grain," can you blame us if we picture the average American as a well-fed, heartless individual lacking in moral character? In our hearts we know it's not true, but for heaven's sake why don't the people get a grip on things and see that the food gets . . . into the bellies of the starving...
...were some kind of museum piece." And for Wilson, all the residents of Hecate County are museum pieces, the bedeviled as well as the Devils. The hero's relations with both of the women in his life, Imogene and Anna, remain on a detached level that is cold and heartless. Nowhere does he reveal any pity or sympathy, even for his closest friends. For all its brilliant condemnation of the bewildered inhabitants of twentieth century America, the book damns no one more thoroughly than it does Edmund Wilson. K.S.L...
Inside the hotel, a businessman audience applauded Martin's whack at Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace's philosophies. Said the tall, 64-year-old Governor: "When a politician promises he can make a law that will create 60,000,000 jobs, he is guilty of a cruel and heartless falsehood. . . . You cannot pass a law that will bring about production. . . . Only enterprise can create employment. . . . Free enterprise is the property of no political party...