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This is a timely description of the evolution, habits, hopes and hates of a long-neglected U.S. fauna, the intelligentsiac lefties. It is probably the most readably realistic novel yet written about them, because humorless Author Hicks takes these strange creatures almost as seriously as they take themselves. For the same reason, it is one of the funniest...
George Sylvester Viereck, major propagandist and minor poet, was never one to belittle George Sylvester Viereck, in any capacity. In his ponderous, humorless autobiography he ardently paid homage to his own poetasting, awarded himself a few oh-you-kids as a lady-killer. In his Spreading Germs of Hate he elaborately detailed his activities as a German propagandist in World War I. Said he: "There is no infallible safeguard against propaganda"-meaning, of course, when conducted by a clever fellow like George Viereck...
...Conceiving a phobia against Mickey Mouse, Brisbane wanted it thrown out, said it was humorless, a waste of space. When Gauvreau balked, Brisbane roared: "Children can be better occupied reading Sir James Jeans about the world we live in. Throw that rat out!" Too old for Mirror journalism, Brisbane one day received a wire from San Simeon: "Dear Arthur, you are now getting out the worst news paper in the United States...
Worst prize for the issue, however, goes to Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. for his stodgy, humorless praises of Harvard in "An Appreciation of Four Years." One almost prefers the Progressive's vituperations to the smooth phrases flowing from the pen of Life's "typical Harvard...
Gletkin was a Stalinist, one of those humorless men whom Rubashov called the "Neanderthalers." It took Rubashov some time to find the right words to describe Gletkin's special quality: "correct brutality." He had been a mere boy when the Revolution broke out. "That was the generation which had started to think after the flood. It had no traditions, and no memories. ... It was a generation born without umbilical cord...