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Rocky, radiant, soft-spoken Anthony Sisti, who runs his own art school in Buffalo and flies to Manhattan every week to teach drawing at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, belongs to the modern school in art and the old school in boxing. A praiser of the days when fighters like Benny Leonard relied on brains rather than bang, Tony Sisti planned to eke out six cagey rounds last week. Instead, he found his young and hopeful opponent open to certain applications of practical anatomy, dropped him once and knocked him out for good in 70 seconds...
...University of London is by turns persuasive, glib, caustic, profound. In Return to Philosophy, Common Sense Ethics, Mind and Matter and other books, he has furnished, he says, "a restatement in modern terms of certain traditional beliefs." He argues that reason, "properly employed," can arrive at truth. A praiser of times past, he dislikes Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Stravinsky music, surrealist painting, modern advertising. His objection to science appears to be that it does not provide enough digestive pills of wisdom to go with its banquet of knowledge...
...readers their money's worth. Drums, Marching On, Long Hunt were all lengthy historical romances in which many a reader took great stock; some captious critics found the stock somewhat watered, but Author Boyd has established his reputation as a popularizer of U. S. legend. No mere praiser of times past, and not willing to go on forever writing melodramas of an earlier day, in Roll River he has come to grips with...
...praiser of times past, McConaughy thinks U. S. reverence for the Founding Fathers much out of place, dubs them the "Funding Fathers." When Congress decided, during Alexander Hamilton's treasuryship, to redeem at par value the nearly worthless certificates with which the Revolutionary Army had been paid, fortunes were made by many a businessman and politician who got to backwoods scrip-owners before the news did. Twenty-nine of the 64 members of the House of Representatives got a share of the pickings. Few great names (Washington's is an exception) escape McConaughy's scorn. Few schoolboys...
...Significance. Lawrence was tortured all his life with the desire to be whole. A hater of Christianity, a praiser of paganism, he was fascinated by the figure of Jesus, was by no means the first or last writer to essay his own Jesus-myth, to try to fit Him into his own ideal...