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...Walter Lippmann--on his first trip to the Soviet Union--took time off from official duties and visited the grave of an old Harvard classmate. He had come to the tomb of a man who had shown no interest for politics while in college--who played court jester at football games, somersaulting and prancing around the sidelines, who trumpeted school spirit, staked more than his pride on gaining acceptance to one of Harvard's elite social clubs, and who lay buried inside the Kremlin wall--a martyr to the Russian revolution...
...poet of the insurrection," and Lenin urged that Ten Days That Shook the World, Reed's report of the Russian Revolution, be "published in millions of copies and translated into all languages." Max Eastman said, "He had a reckless equilibrium in walking life's tightropes"; Walter Lippmann called him "one of the intractables," possessed with "an inordinate desire to be arrested." Max Lerner praised his "Faustian thirst for life"; Upton Sinclair dismissed him as a "playboy of the social revolution." Journalist and playwright, Harvard cheerleader and Moscow radical, consciousness-and hellraiser, Reed embraced contradictions as he ran like...
Strenio argues his handful of strong points mainly by repetition, piling up examples and appending endless strings of quotations--mostly the testimony of notables (e.g. Walter Lippmann) who share the author's view. Similar "arguments" characterize his treatment of the complex question of cultural bias. He presents examples galore of confusing questions; yet one of them, closer inspection reveals, Strenio wrote himself as an illustration, and for several others he neglected to find out the test's accepted answers. The reader can not but wonder how complete the author's understanding can be of tests that he never even...
George Will then proceeded to ignore Walter Lippmann's valedictory advice to the press ("Put not your trust in princes"). Will questions the cynicism that "the only way for a journalist to look at a politician is down"; instead, "to have intelligent sympathy for them, it helps to know a few as friends." This is an attitude admired in the social precincts of political Washington but unfashionable elsewhere...
...where art and science flourished and the seeds of tyranny were planted. China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston. The second book by the author of The Woman Warrior, about growing up Chinese in the U.S., is the Oriental equivalent of Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers. Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel. The dean of U.S. pundits revealed as a fallible man. American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel. The latest chorus of voices of hope and trouble, edited and affectionately arranged by the oral historian. Walt Whitman: A Life by Justin Kaplan...