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...sociological critics of the Marxist persuasion as evidences of Eliot's state of mind under capitalism. Eliot's figures are characters of the contemporary scene, caught off their guard, as it were, and snapped in some characteristic stance. In that sense only is it proper for Marxist critics to refer to Eliot as the poet singing the dirge of the capitalist epoch...
...peasant, harsh, dour, and as the journalists say 'honest!' . . . He does not promise them that the State will make their fortunes, but that, if they work the State will do what it can to help them. . . . The peasants, I think, do not show displeasure when they refer to him as un furbo, 'a crafty fellow.' He is, indeed, very, very astute...
...conclusion that the President is handling two dams in one day? What about Rand McNally? Isn't there some-thing just a little unsettling in the Times's dogmatic position, as though the editor had decided to ignore subsequent elections and announced that henceforth he would refer to Mr. Roosevelt as President Chester A. Arthur? What can you do about a thing like that...
...price on Broadway for ringside seats was $250 for two. Day after the fight, Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote a lead: "You are now listening to the most reassuring sound that has been heard in the land since a whisper from Samuel Insull was a roar from the douds. . . . I refer to the shrill, waning "No, no, no," while Referee Arthur Donovan ended the fight by counting...
Less successful impresarios often refer to "Gallo luck." (His name means "Lucky Rooster.") But Gallo believes more in hard work and frugality. He pays his routine singers $85 per week, thus can afford to keep his seat prices low. Even at such wages the singers sing often. And if they complain of their schedules, Gallo can always remind them of the hours he has worked since he arrived in the U. S.. an immigrant of 17 who had lost all but 12? shooting craps in the steerage...