Word: leftishness
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Five years ago, attentive U. S. watchers of British literary skies noted the appearance of young Cecil Day Lewis in a constellation of Oxford poets whose brightest star was Wystan Hugh Auden. Few watchers knew, however, that in addition to writing leftish lyrics, Poet Lewis also wrote detective stories under the name of Nicholas Blake-well-plotted affairs such as There's Trouble Brewing and A Question of Proof. This week, his latest murder mystery appeared with both his name and pseudonym on the jacket. This may have been self-protection, for The Beast Must Die revolves around...
Perhaps the New Deal might be defined as bewildered idealism, leftish in objectives, rightish in methods, misunderstood by liberals, misused by conservatives, mistrusted by businessmen-but still relied upon reluctantly by indebted farmers, doubtfully by organized labor, helplessly by the unemployed, and hopefully by bewildered idealists...
...that of the hero's amiably light-headed crony-is played with whimsicality a shade less grim than usual by Edward Everett Horton. Omitting his own classic monologue on "How I Invented the Bottle," Screenwriter Stewart has substituted as the role's piece de resistance a lightly Leftish Punch & Judy show...
...since last January has served Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau as a special assistant. Grandson of a covered-wagon pioneer, son of a rich & pious Mormon, Governor Eccles graduated from Brigham Young College at 19, promptly went to Scotland as a missionary. As if to allay fears of his Leftish theories, his business career was carefully itemized last week in a long White House release. He had been: 1) one of the founders and longtime head of a $50,000,000 group of Utah and Idaho banks "which came through the banking crisis in such splendid condition as to reflect...
...Presiding Bishop to dispose "once and for all" of the seventh plea for reinstatement of Heretic William Montgomery Brown, ousted bishop (TIME, Oct. 8), a committee did so by, advising the Bishops to reject it. The Bishops concurred. ¶ A Young People's Conference tingled to a Leftish speech by Very Rev. John W. Day, dean of the Topeka, Kans. Cathedral, who flayed NRA as capitalistic, exhorted his hearers not to bear arms and urged wartime conscription of wealth. Even more tingling were the words of another Day, Rev. Gardiner M., student pastor at Williams College. Telling the Church...