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...themes in the new journalism essay resurface in a less obviously self-serving form, in "The Painted Word." There is the same criticism of post-war art as being relevant only to critical work and to other art, rather than life. There is the same bitterness towards critics, the same yearning for realism...
Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics, told the Senate Budget Committee Wednesday the unless the government immediately takes strong stimulating measures the economy will quickly slide into its worst post-war recession...
...most insightful, informative section of Love-Hate Relations is a section entitled "Ebb Tide in England," covering English poets and the war. Spender sees World War I as a major turning point in the shifting of "the immense advantage." Americans and English alike experienced a loss of faith in the old world. Strangely enough, the American attitude towards Europe in the post-war period seems to have been strongly influenced by a detached, outsider's view of the fighting, seen through ambulance windshields by drivers like E. E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, Dashiell Hammett and Malcolm Cowley...
...credit, Lamont spurned the narrowly academic tendencies of his own personality and the universities where he taught in favor of an activist role in healing U.S.-Soviet relations, in fighting the red-baiters of both post-war eras, in protesting the Hiroshimas, the Bays of Pigs, the Vietnams. And, as certain of his essays in Voice in the Wilderness drive home, the reader should be grateful. For Lamont, had he written the books requisite to obtain a tenured position more revered than the "lecturer in philosophy" job he worked at intermittently for almost two decades at Columbia, Cornell...
During the fall term, Kiely again offered his ever-popular course in the post-war novel, English 166. During winter reading period, Kiely who is master of Adams House decided to offer a review session in the course in Adams House. At the review session, attended mostly by Adams residents because Kiely hadn't announced it to the course as a whole, he gave two specific examples of the kinds of question that might appear on the exam and discussed its general format...