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...Soviet." Then the machinery started turning whereby the Party gets a wide assortment of innocent bystanders and fellow travelers to forward the assassination. Labor unions, civic groups and authors received unsigned memorandums, urging protests; many obliged. Protests were made by Sculptor Jo Davidson, Artist Rockwell Kent, Poet Alfred Kreymborg, Poetess Genevieve Taggard. They were joined by many simpler admirers of the Russians who frankly admitted that they had not read the novel...
There is perhaps more quiet medicament for negrophobes in Margaret Walker's For My People than in any other book of Negro verse yet published. Poetess Walker, a 27-year-old, Alabama-born English teacher, avoids the callow literary posturing that is the curse of most Negro versifiers. In this, her first book, she writes with civilized simplicity and dignity about the humanity of her people. The effect, whether in her psalmlike lyrics, her stark ballads or her biting sonnets, is often solemn and beautiful, like a black frost in the deep South...
...moral guilelessness which may well rate as the most valuable gift of the Negro to American civilization is exemplified in almost every stanza of this slim 26-poem book. But Poetess Walker does not overrate the virtues of her people any more than she underrates the trouble they...
...Keeffe admits there is reason for her flowers and landscapes to be considered as symbols of the unconscious, her gigantic Black Cross, New Mexico] might suggest extreme asceticism. All of O'Keeffe's work, utterly original, has graphic cleanliness, economy, purity, a lyric quality suggesting that of Poetess Emily Dickinson...
...submitted to the Steinach operation. He went off to Majorca with a swami to translate the Upanishads-a rest somewhat addled when a visiting poetess, mad with joy over praise from Yeats, so conducted herself as to fall on a valuable dog for whose injuries the Peruvian Consul presented a bill...