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...political strength is that he is a cross between an unscrupulous Bryan and a political Barnum, a realist as well as an exhibitionist. He is a buffoon by policy but in his own line he is as smart as a steel trap. He has conclusively demonstrated that in Louisiana by finding a hundred ingenious ways to turn the institutions of democracy into the tools of absolute dictatorship. He is a master of writing jokers into laws. In the U. S. Senate he has made himself in three short years a master of parliamentary tricks...
Little appraisal of the romantic period at large, small attention to the times of which Byron was a symbol, are notable in this work. Mr. Calvert's criticism is limited to Byron as he portrayed himself in his published writings and in his letters. Humble, serious, much of a realist despite his exhibitionistic tendencies, Mr. Calvert finds Byron complex, yet tangible. "Where Keats is autumn haze and Shelley pure ether," he says, "Byron is rock--and the hard outcroppings may indicate geologic epochs or hot underflows of lava that are worth nothing and understanding...
...while on a lonely mountain, the Stigmata of the Crucifixion glowed darkly on St. Francis' hands and feet. Although no medical realist has ever before been able to confute satisfactorily the Miracle of the Stigmata, Historian Hartung brashly declares...
...romantic the apartment house is of course far from desirable; he likes to know his neighbors because they live next door or a few rods down the street, and is grieved not to know them because they live--twenty suites of them--under his same roof. Housing is a realist art, however, the care of the statesman, and since it marches with economics, modern housing progresses or recedes, according to the economic system...
...Pope frowns on all forms of contraception because they prevent the birth of children, prime purpose of Roman Catholic matrimony. A thoroughgoing realist, the Pope at the same time knows that many loving Catholics who fear to have children defy his pontifical frown. Therefore he decided that it is morally right and proper for Catholic couples to utilize the wife's monthly rhythm of sterility and fertility as a natural method of contraception...