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Most of Lewis' pieces about other people's books were really implicit defenses of his own. Throughout his life he kept up a running journalistic battle in behalf of realism, by which he meant his idea that the American village could be "as inquisitorial as an army barracks'' and the American businessman "the most grievous victim of his own militant dullness." At the same time, Lewis kept firing away at his literary enemies: the "genteel philosophy" personified in William Dean Howells, a writer with "the code of a pious old maid whose greatest delight...
Evidently, some method for damming up this flood of cheap literature must be established--a method which can avoid the dangers implicit in covert censorship...
...error of his way, tries with some hesitation due to inner conflict, but with complete dedication of spirit and every resource of a brilliant mind, to arouse the American people, lulled to Circean inactivity, to the treasonable conspiracy against the country and the destruction of the Christian values implicit in our civilization and is met with public defamation, the eyebrow-raising of spiritual vagrants in and out of government, the supercilious superiority of guilt itself, and spiritual wickedness in high places; nevertheless, renouncing the things which men hold dear, wealth, position and prestige, and disregarding the statute of limitations...
...only incidentally a witness to a weak man's sins and misdeeds or even the crimes that are implicit in the practice of Communism. In so far as I am a true witness, it is because twice in my life I came, not alone, for I had my wife and children by the hand, to a dark tower, and, in a storm of the spirit, listened to that question that was both within and without me: Who, if I cried out, would hear me from among the orders of the angels...
Although a tinny sound track and home-movie photography is implicit in most foreign films, Passion For Life contains enough good, light humor so that its technical defects are not overwhelming...