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...trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell and the plump Bloomsbury hedonist, C.E.M. Joad. All that fidgety Satirist Menen succeeds in doing in his jape is to remind the reader what neat debaters those...
...report that a resolution regretting the dominant influence of the U.S. among the democratic nations was passed by the Oxford Union under the persuasion of [British Philosopher] C.E.M. Joad [TIME, June 12]. He is an irresponsible smart aleck, the measure of whose irresponsibility in attacking America may be gauged from the fact that he had the effrontery to write a book about the U.S. entitled The Babbitt Warren [Harper, 1927] at a time when he had never even visited this country...
What a stinker Cyril Joad...
...Since 1930 Joad, professor of philosophy at London University, has publicly advocated agnosticism, polygamy, suicide, Manichaeanism, Christianity, rationalism, dualism, pacifism, appeasement, intervention, Oswald Mosley, Socialism, anti-Zionism, gambling, Jane Russell's bosom and better British cooking...
...thrust at Joad's third-class travel on a British train without buying a ticket, which brought him a court conviction...