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...HOLMES-LASKI LETTERS (1,650 pp.)-2 Vols. edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe-Harvard...
...began with a simple bread & butter note that Harold J. Laski, 23, sent to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 75, one day in 1916. Laski, then an instructor in government at Harvard, assured the Great Dissenter that "you teach our generation how we may hope to live," pressed a couple of books on him, and begged permission to "write sometimes and ask you questions." In the next two decades, Briton Laski asked precious few questions of Yankee Holmes, and frequently he wrote three or four letters to Holmes's one, but the sparks flying between two well-charged minds produced...
...early Laski, eager and adulatory, often buttered up Holmes as if he were a, rich uncle with a legacy to hand out. If this cloyed on Holmes, he never gave a sign; he was obviously having too much fun watching Laski's continuous intellectual floor show. Holmes soon learned to value the new friendship so dearly that when Laski left the U.S. in 1920 to teach at the London School of Economics, Holmes wrote: "I shall miss you sadly. There is no other man I should miss so much...
Stocky, sharp-faced Journalist Paik Chung Muk, 38, is foreign-educated (Japan and Germany) and possessor of a biting intellectual intensity. Said he: "I read every work Harold Laski wrote. I worshiped him for years. Then I realized I was wrong. Now I am back on more solid ground." What had wrought the change? Paik downed the equivalent of half a jigger of Four Roses whisky from a cracked porcelain cup, chased it with a handful of warm pine nuts, and went on: "Many of my former friends are now with the Communists in the north. I almost went with...
...need of your God, and you can act the whole drama of Fall and Redemption to its end in yourself." Nietzsche's extravagant tone and his "fascism" repel many "liberals" who do not recognize the essential similarity in idea and historical origin of Naziism and Communism. Harold Laski, a Socialist with a great influence on "liberals" and "progressivists," summed up the Russian Revolution in a political translation of Nietzsche...