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...West that he intended to convert Czechoslovakia into a one-party (Communist) state. But between plan and fulfillment stood next May's elections, in which Communists have set out to win an absolute (51%) majority. Last week, with voting six months away, Gottwald's campaign was in shrill swing...
...crudely black & white dramatization of racial prejudice in a Midwestern town, hit an exposed nerve of U.S. society. So did a rash of other race-relations novels (led by Laura Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement). They were no doubt well-intended, but most were conscientious catastrophes, shrill and thin-blooded...
...continue to bore the air along their accustomed lines-and with unhappy results. Two pages of Henry Miller's exhibitionist prose, a dozen lines of Kenneth Patchen's apocalyptic "self-expression" verse are all a reader needs to know forever the school of professional literary bohemianism. The shrill, barren exercises in surrealist freewheeling, the turgid moralizing of those poets who have retired to philosophical hermitages, and the vulgarity of the psychoanarchists-all these are dead letters...
...Rome, too, there was a battle. Into the lassitude of falling autumn leaves burst the garish colors of election posters, the shrill sounds of political hoodlumism. One night, when right-wing Socialist Matteo Matteotti tried to speak in a shabby Rome suburb, Communists attacked him and knocked him to the ground (he is the son of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist martyr killed by Mussolini's thugs in 1924, whom the Communists still treat as an idol). Another evening, Communists cornered a group of young Christian Democrats. One Catholic youth of 22 was kicked, beaten and knifed to death...
...Suave or Shrill. Then, picking up a sheaf of questions submitted in advance by newsmen, he tackled them in a manner alternately suave, sarcastic and shrill...