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Fair Dealers and their C.I.O. buddies dug out his speeches, reread old articles, measured him for the target board and found him a perfect fit. He had once pronounced the New Deal's welfare programs a menace to the American way of life, in 1941 had loudly opposed Lend-Lease and U.S. "involvement" in Europe, had viewed with alarm presidential powers "to control completely the industrial life of America down to the smallest factory." What's more, he was also suspected of being overly soft toward Big Business...
...Reread today, Aiken's poems seem spotty. All too often his narrative poems, dealing with such subjects as a tailor's affair with a vampire and a Roman emperor's gloating over the dissection of an Eastern princess, seem more ridiculous than horrible. And his reflective poems frequently sink into a mindless musical torpor, in which occasional brilliant passages are overwhelmed by loose, undisciplined globs of language...
...read and enjoyed one or all of "Barefoot Boy with Cheek," "The Feather Merchants," and "The Zebra Derby," reread one or all of them. If you haven't read any of them, read one. If you have met Shulman and not been convulsed, forget the whole thing...
...such little books as Trivia and More Trivia, in which he rubbed his language to a fine sheen and tried to distill the essence of his new-found cultivation into concise paragraphs. Smith's lapidary phrases were admired by such tweedy literary folk as Christopher Morley, but, reread today, they seem rather cold and feeble...
...good biography. But since Ariel was highly readable, and since a lot of people proved to be curious about romantic poets, Maurois soon had a hit on his hands. With this encouragement he turned out polished and readable, and somewhat empty lives of Disraeli, Byron and Dickens. Reread today, such Maurois works seem pretty thin; where the peerless Lytton (Eminent Victorians) Strachey was genuinely witty, Maurois was merely suave; where Strachey conveyed the quality and texture of a period, Maurois lacquered his work with the weary irony of the worldly boulevardier...