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...national headline character potentially as famous as that other obscure Negro, Dred Scott.* Into the Boston court of U. S. District Judge James Arnold Lowell, cousin of Harvard's president, had gone N. A. A. C. P. attorneys seeking a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Lowell, an individualist on & off the bench where he has sat for eleven years, granted the writ. His legal reasoning: Virginia does not permit Negroes to serve on juries; therefore any conviction of George Crawford would be voided by the Supreme Court as contrary to the 14th Amendment. Declared Judge Lowell: "The only persons...
...pages Cummings meticulously chronicles a 36-day trip from Paris to Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, Istanbul and back to France again. His account of Russia is not friendly. To his ironic and individualist eye, the U. S. S. R. is the dreary nadir of materialism and mass-compulsion, an "unworld." Sample of cummingsesque: "unstructure with eagles. Despair. A on filthy floorless sitting perhaps drunken nonman. Confusion, timidly. ("See the" )whispers("nomads")Turkess . . . (stolid hugely faces poke from rags & bags: sullen squat drearily scratching lost ghosts. Men. Grunt nonmen. Their pyramid-of fear, surfaced with asquirm naked babies-does not move. None...
Maurice Sachs in his "Decade of Illusion" is very much a member of the school he describes. He is an individualist and an intellectual; something of a philosopher, a rationalist, while still an incurable romantic. At times he spoils his impression by unrestrained, uncritical enthusiasms; and he is throughout perhaps too trusting of his demi-gods. But the book pictures a phase of life, of bohemianism, that has never existed before and may never exist again with a certain brilliance and much understanding...
Knox was an individualist-more than anyone knew-and disgruntled young men, smarting under the tyranny of I. A. & A., began to desert their posts and come to him by night. Soon he had a picked corps. Directors of I. A. & A. wanted no trouble with Knox, partly because of his fame (he was the Lindbergh-Edison-Einstein of his day) but mostly because they feared some threatening invention up his sleeve. Sure enough, Knox had discovered Motive Air: utilization of elements in the air itself to drive airplanes at a speed of over 1,000 m.p.h. In his carefully...
...ordered historical argument, whose headings tot up to a respectable "Individualist Manifesto," Kallen contends that present U. S. leaders "neither face nor understand" the present situation. Industrialism, depersonalizing human relations, "has aborted 'Americanism' as an ideal and has thwarted workers as individuals." Constitution-worship, Fascism, Communism spring not from hope but from fear. Since societies exist only by the consent of their members, a withdrawal of consent (as in the case of Prohibition) nullifies society's laws and purposes. The history of the U. S., thinks Kallen, "is the history of an unremitting warfare in behalf...