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Satirist Ehrenburg also leads his pantaloon pilgrim to some slapstick swipes at Communist literature of the period. Although all he knew about the subject was that "Leo Tolstoy had a handsome beard just like Karl Marx," the little tailor becomes an "inexorable" Marxist literary critic. As pundit of proletarian literature -which is what Ehrenburg himself became after he ended his Paris stay in 1940 and went home-Lasik writes a preface for a socialist realist novel about romance in a soap factory ("Dunja yielded to the beat of new life, and whispered, blushing slightly: 'You see. we have surpassed...
...funeral of the five Communists killed in Reggio Emilia, the riots had served to rally non-Communists temporarily to the support of the Tambroni government. But there was little rejoicing among liberal Italians, who recognized the neo-Fascists as a constant source of similar trouble for the government. Wrote Pundit Enrico Mattei: "The Tambroni government cannot go while there is violence. But when the violence ends, let it go in favor of a more representative government stronger and better equipped to cope with sedition...
...Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Pundit Walter Lippmann makes his first television appearance in a broad, blunt discussion, with Interviewer Howard K. Smith, of Presidents, politics and peeves...
...miseducators of the people," he has a good journalist's keen and sometimes merciless way of sizing up people. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau "hadn't a brain in his head." F.D.R.'s aide, Harry Hopkins, "had a feeling of a mistress toward President Roosevelt." Pundit Walter Lippmann's "job in life is to sit in a noise-proof room and draft things on paper" without ever going through the "heartbreaks of getting agreement out of people...
From solons to saloonkeepers, every wag had his political gag as the election moon waxed bright. The word around the Pentagon last week was that if Nelson Rockefeller believes the nation needs $3 billion more for defense, "why doesn't he write a check?" New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock figured that "the inter partisan confusion could now be resolved if the Democrats would nominate their favorite Republican, Rockefeller, and the Republicans their favorite Democrat, Lyndon Johnson." In the Senate, Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy spotted the reason his favorite candidate, Hubert Humphrey, lost the West Virginia primary: "Hubert...