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...much more interesting at the end of The Confident Years, when he launches a major attack on the "religion of art," of which he considers Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot the high priests. Modern writing, as Brooks sees it, is split between the "religion of art" and the Jeffersonian tradition; Eliot and Pound have sneered at the Jeffersonians, who have tried, for their part, to realize "the vision of a good life and world that had sprung from the Enlightenment and the age of revolutions." That Pound and Eliot are gifted poets, Brooks does not question. He insists, however...
...State. As you go from an important embassy to a well-known columnist's, to the Sulgrave Club and a chic Georgetown house, any Washingtonian will know in advance which Supreme Court, Cabinet and Senate couples might be encountered. Cave dwellers seem to prefer conservatives; high average I.Q.s, Jeffersonian Democrats...
...Jefferson* to the late, great Adolph Simon Ochs, Sulzberger's father-in-law and father (1896-1935) of the modern New York Times. Sulzberger himself suggested the inscription: "Dedicated to the memory of Adolph S. Ochs . . . who by the example of a responsible press enlarged and fortified the Jeffersonian concept of a free press...
...society, which was just about where Karl Marx had stood. When his espousal of Socialism brought him the title of "the Red Professor," Laski retorted: "The devil [i.e., Laski] is not as red as he is painted. His evil-minded Socialism is nothing more than the logical development of Jeffersonian democracy in the 20th Century...
...really don't think there is anything to say about me except that I am honest and anxious to see a decent world before I die." It is fairly certain that Harold Laski considered that wish unfulfilled by the world as it was when he died last week. Jeffersonian-Marxist Harold Laski, for all his brilliance, had never made it quite clear what he considered a decent world...