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...least $5,000 years. This he has misused in every conceivable way--but he has had it. In some past centuries it has been almost totally hidden, and in most it has been restricted to merely a few--who have been known as the "cultured", or the "intelligentsia," At the present moment, even, there are many writers very pessimistic over man's present aesthetic sense, or, more narrowly, his ability to appreciate good literature and art. No less a writer than Mr. Hamlen Garland, in "the Bookman", sums up the bill board-movie-magazine peril in discouraging terms. His only...
These incidents taken together are symptomatic of a widespread attitude of mind which is far from healthy. The mere fact that this sort of literature is being disseminated shows that enough people are being fooled to make the business profitable; and this, in turn insinuates that the supposed intelligentsia of the country, or some appreciable pertain of it are willing to simulate culture and education, while allowing somebody else to do the work...
...kind, it is natural that he should take pleasure in statistical tabulations of the tastes and ancles of his fellows. One of the latest of these diversions is a poll among some few hundreds of the cognoscente- a term which has recently become "le mot juste" among the intelligentsia--to determine the ten best books published since...
Although there was hoarse outcry from great groups of intelligentsia over the award last year (Icebound by Owen Davis) the verdict is usually accepted and the winning play recognized as the leader in native dramatic literature. In face of the quantity and quality of successful American plays produced last year, this judgment for 1923 will be no moderate honor...
Meanwhile in England there is J. Ramsey Macdonald, surrounded in his Cabinet by such intelligentsia as Oliver, Snowden, Webb and Trevelyan, and such rough-and-ready Labor union men as Henderson, Thomas, Walsh, and Hartshorn. Before he accepted the premiership, Macdonald announced the sufficiently socialistic policy of a capital levy, and nationalization of the mines and railways. And there comes as convincing proof of the road this new government is to take the proposal to recognize Soviet Russia...