Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FANDANGO-Robed Briffault-Scribner's ($2.50). Because a few years ago many reviewers would not call a rotten book rotten-or couldn't get the scent-if its politics were Left, Anthropologist Robert Briffault developed an extraordinary reputation through his first novel, Europa, scarcely diminished it with Europa in Limbo. Robert Forsythe wrote of him, in New Masses: "I not only consider him the most brilliant writer in the English language today but by long odds the most learned and profound man of our time." Briffault's third novel, Fandango, is shorter and a little less pretentious...
...Davidson, the Saposs speech was plainly Communism. Heartsick at this revelation, homesick for Orange, he walked the streets for hours that night, next day. Third day, he resigned in a letter charging that NLRB's "entire record is replete with rotten radicalism." He added that Mr. Saposs' lecture "was quite in keeping with your smelly Fansteel decision in which you sought to bestow a paternal benediction on sit-down strikes." Board Secretary Nathan Witt forthwith fired Mr. Davidson for his "false and scurrilous letter." This made Mr. Davidson really mad. "How can they fire me? I quit first...
...become pragmatic, the practical were now willing to take a few theories. The scent of battle, and not a hopeless battle, brought Republicans together in Washington last week. To them the New Deal Administration was like an overfat, overspread empire, whose sentinels are asleep, whose palaces are termite-rotten under the gilt. The hungry guerrillas peered at Glenn Frank's battle-chart and sniffed...
...whip the recalcitrant U. S. delegation (Gitlow, chairman) into line behind Boss Stalin. In charge was Stalin himself. It was 4:00 a. m. Leaden-eyed, grey-faced with weariness and capitulation, the world's top Communists had heard Stalin denounce the U. S. comrades as Right Wingers, "rotten" diplomats, Hooverites, Babbitts, bourgeois opportunists...
This brings around the second topic of discussion, which is that Harvard has a scrapping, capable team which does not deserve the rotten support it has been getting...