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...Pinko-authority on art, economics, education, politics. His book on U. S. college life, The Goose Step, was widely read by young liberals...
...undergraduate journalist fulminating on a newly-discovered injustice. It was not even a self-righteous young instructor writing to a pinko-political weekly about his just deserts. It was Dr. William Allan Neilson, President of Smith College. Dr. Neilson is also President of the Modern Language Association of America; he was addressing his fellow-scholars in that body where they sat convened in Manhattan. He was discussing a feature of a report lately published by the American Association of University Professors, against whom he said he "bore a grudge" for their unwillingness to share the burden of faculty dismissals...
When Dr. Henry Seidel Canby resigned from the editorship of the Literary Review of The New York Evening Post (TIME, May 19), The Nation, pinko-political review in Manhattan, was endowed with a bit of clairvoyance. It declared: "In these days of unprecedented interest in good literature, it is hard to believe that he can remain without a medium. Even if under another name the urbane spirit of the Literary Review must surely live...
...managed to survive-for 16 years-on money contributions. It is estimated that nearly $1,000,000 was used to sustain its life by artificial respiration. On Oct. 1 of this year it changed hands. Several unions, notably a union of clothing workers, bought the paper. The pinko-progressive press hailed the change as an epoch in the annals of Labor and Journalism. But it seems that Labor is even less competent as a journalist than Socialism. The paper came too near the rocks and is in a fair way to suffer a sea-change, strange, if not rich...