Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went this evening to a gathering at the largest and most luxurious of the clubs here, the Union, to hear for myself the sort of fetid propaganda the capitalist directorate are putting into the mouths of this puppet faculty. The doormen refused to let me in simply because I could not show a membership card. Another proof of their preposterous caste exclusiveness! Luckily I know so well the capitalist mind, that I was able to write a full report of the talk to the comrades in New York, notwithstanding...
...Baring: Puppet Show of Memory...
...author has chosen a difficult task. He attempts to portray the psychological development of a not strictly average individual. His method is to picture, in kaleidoscopic glimpses, Sellaby's attitudes towards--well, towards things. Mr. Benet succeeds rather remarkably well, too, because he succeeds in putting his puppet through a great variety of experiences. Some of the incidents are very well told, and might stand alone as good short stories. But with clever artistry, Mr. Benet has inserted one or two themes into his narrative which serve to unify the whole quite effectively...
...moment's reflection proves to the enlightened that it is not so much the citizen's duty to vote as to vote intelligently. So when confronted by candidates appointed at puppet conventions by party leaders determined to obscure or to neutralize every possible issue alike in the realm of ideas and of practical affairs, none but the gullible have any choice but to register at the polls without voting at all. This line of action requires of us courage to withstand exasperating misrepresentation and it is futile without public explanation. But it will remain the only effective course open...
What takes place on the floor of the Convention Hall from now on will be mere puppet-play, actuated by the wire-pulling from behind the scenes. Stirring puppet-play it will be; the Old Guard, divided against itself, making what may prove to be its last stand in a presidential nomination; Senator Penrose from his sick bed trying to let his voice be heard once more; Senator Lodge facing the struggle of his career with the half-hearted applause at his speech mocking his efforts; and conflicting groups from every state and section dubbing their favorite sons "dark horses...