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...Board can, however, satisfy the Union's demands without causing a flood of overblown demands, Lewis' main argument for the increase is the disparity between the UMW's fringe benefits and those of other workers in heavy industry. If the miners will accept the 40 cents difference in the form of increased vacation pay, the strike can come to an early and honorable...
...advance all these theories because both Adlai Stevenson and Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois look very suspiciously like rush jobs. (Busch's appeared just before the Democratic Convention and Martin's soon after). Basically, they are overblown news stories, combining amateurish attempts at character analysis with homey anecdotes about the Governor frolicking with his kids on the front lawn. Neither book is well written because, I suppose, quotations, homily, and hum-drum are incompatible with polished prose. At best, they are slick...
Veronese got his name from his birthplace, Verona, but Venice was home to him. His art is a somewhat overblown flowering of the great tradition of Venetian painting -a tradition which Giovanni Bellini, the teacher of Titian and Giorgione, founded. For the chill, narrow intensity of earlier Venetian art, these men substituted warmth, breadth and grace. Critic Antoine Orliac once summed up Veronese in a scholarly line: "He is the expression of hieratic constraint relaxing into luminous activity...
...abstract standards of readability without asking what it means to the writer himself. He condemns the critical attitude "intent on getting the audience to understand quickly, rather than on encouraging the writer to have his full say." Kazin argues that to ban, by rule-of-thumb, Faulkner's "overblown" words and rhetorical phrasing would be to purge his writing of those elements most essential to his way of looking on the world. Faulkner could not write differently without thinking differently; therefore his words and ideas must be criticized as a whole. Faulkner's readers are privileged listeners...
Professor Owen Lattimore retired from his battles with Joe McCarthy last summer with his guns still smoking. His parting shot was a pamphleteering book entitled Ordeal by Slander. In it, he pictured himself as a simple scholar who was all but martyred by McCarthy's overblown charges that Lattimore was "the architect" of U.S. Far Eastern policy and a "top Russian espionage agent." Lattimore's last chapter warned that McCarthyism was undermining U.S. scholarship and morals...