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...poems, particularly The Waste Land, confused many established critics, enraged others. Christopher Morley even suggested that The Waste Land, and its celebrated six pages of notes, was a hoax. W. B. Yeats found Eliot's poems flat, unrhythmical, colorless, "working without apparent imagination." But years later, Rose Macaulay recalled The Waste Land's first impact: "Beyond and through the dazzling, puzzling technique, the verbal fascination, the magpie glitter of the borrowed and adapted phrases that brought a whole chorus of literature into service, enriching and extending every theme-beyond and through all this there was the sharp sense...
Another Buddhist Hoax? Sir: That so-called Highlanders' rebellion [Oct. 2]-is it only the word of the Viet Cong? Or are we witnessing another "Buddhist"-type hoax in which the Viet Cong agents are agitating while the policymakers of the State Department are encouraging them in an attempt to exploit the situation as a pretext for taking advantage of their position as "allies" to install some kind of military or political bases more strongly in the highlands, in default of being able to do so in the lowlands? At any rate, it would be a hoax equivalent...
Another Buddhist Hoax...
...That so-called Highlanders' rebellion [Oct. 2]-is it only the word of the Viet Cong? Or are we witnessing another "Buddhist"-type hoax in which the Viet Cong agents are agitating while the policymakers of the State Department are encouraging them in an attempt to exploit the situation as a pretext for taking advantage of their position as "allies" to install some kind of military or political bases more strongly in the highlands, in default of being able to do so in the lowlands? At any rate, it would be a hoax equivalent to the "Buddhist" hoax...
...cried: "When all is said and done, there's only one real issue in this campaign-character versus corruption. And in Barry Goldwater we have the character, and they can have the corruption." In Reno, Nev., Miller condemned the Administration's war on poverty as "a cruel hoax on the American people, put into effect two months before the election, not with any thought of correcting poverty but only to buy votes for Lyndon Johnson with taxpayers' money...