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...caused by the ideological bankruptcy of the right no more and no less than by the moral bankruptcy of the left. He seeks to by-pass this dilemma by an appeal to conscience, and the force of his fervors lies in part in this simplification. For as a social seer he is really only asking a question. It is as old as Adam and still unanswerable: "Where is thy brother Abel...
...effort made him what he said of Goethe: "The cow from which the rest drew their milk." His conceptions of "the infinitude of the private man," of the equality of all souls, of content as above expression (to the point of windy disregard for expression), of the poet as seer or prophet, of the intuitive moment as final knowledge, of all things as symbols-these (and a luminous excitement over democracy) were the stock-in-brain of all Transcendentalists, but it was Emerson who articulated them first...
...crux of the election lies in the coal-mining districts of Pennsylvania. Unless John L. Lewis can swing enough votes to give Willkie the state, the election is in the bag for Roosevelt." This is the opinion of Government Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06, chief political seer of the Faculty...
Yesterday, Bill Cunningham, sports seer of the Boston Post, using levy-League football as a spring board, took a flying swan dive into a deeper problem. His query: "What's happened to youth?" His answer: they've lost "not only physical energy but ... moral courage." As representative of the current younger-generation-is-going-to-the-dogs school of thought, that answer is a challenge...
...wonder how Mr. Anderson feels about his remarks now. Am inclined to doubt his later explanation, "satire" . . . for, as a purveyor of satire, Mr. Anderson is a seer of note. If Mr. Anderson will kindly give our patriotic Americans another look into the necessities of the future with the acumen of above date, I am sure it will be gratefully received...