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...Haeckel, Neitzsche, Mark Twain, Anatole France. It concludes with a chapter on The Revival of Paganism and another called Back to Christ-or Chaos. Written by a Paulist Father, it is sectarian religious propaganda. It goes so far as to call a rival creed "not a religion but . . . a patchwork composed of odds and ends, shreds, and fragments of false philosophies, put together in an amateurish way by a sadly uneducated Yankee woman...
...very expensive cast gave a patchwork performance in a somewhat unpalatable play. The single redeeming feature was the bitter brilliance of Margalo Gillmore...
...Significance. Geranium trees and alabaster cups?pickled walnuts and plovers' eggs?Darius Milhaud and Ouida?a patchwork of curious names, objects, personages, vices?a plate of literary antipasto, some pleasant, some a little stale. Somewhat affected, somewhat precious, quite amusing, though not nearly as delightful as Peter Whiffle, The Blind Bow-Boy reviews a facile display of intellectual fireworks from under the lacquered eyelids of a superficial sophistication. The fireworks squib out, the performance is over. There were too many pinwheels near the close, perhaps, and the shadow of Ronald Firbank had a way of straying across the scene...
There is evidently something wrong with the whole organization of the world's industry, and no patchwork methods are going to set it right. It is for a new system, a new universal institution that will do away with all the old cross purposes and selfish barriers in industrialism that the League for Industrial Democracy is working...
Oxford, too, has its Fitzgerald. "Patchwork" by Beverly Nichols, the publishers (Henry Holt) tell us, will do for the pre-war Oxford what "This Side of Paradise" did for Princeton...