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...satire from Communist newspapers: "In Communist China they try to get rid of the emotions, and turn people into machines, not realizing that it is possible to become something like a machine without really being one." The Mao regime wants machines in human form, and the author's slyest satire suggests that it gets just the reverse...
...county courtroom, Lindsey and three helpers exhorted farmers, ranchers and courthouse loafers. "You think it's silly tryin' to call up the varmint that has the reputation through the ages of bein' the slyest. We four have been the direct cause of about 600 bitin' the dust." He explained carefully how two men with miners' cap lights were to stand back-to-back waiting to spot the fox's red eyes. Behind the jury box, some hound-dog men snickered...
...published in the overseas edition, but printed in their 18 domestic editions, is the C.I.O. News's slyest attempt at sugarcoating: a comic strip called The Adventures aj Jim Barry, Trouble Shooter. Its hero, who gets off some occasional soap-boxing for "60 million jobs" while solving murder mysteries, is a labor editor who is tall, dark and politically unswerving. His latest triumph was uncovering a murder in a labor-management committee. The villain turned out to be, not the boss, as unsophisticated readers might have expected, but the attorney for "some stockholders." Trapped, the villain hissed...
...unsparing enough now to disturb most modern readers. Seventy-two years ago it was so shocking it blew its gifted author into literary oblivion. One of the best war stories in U. S. fiction, the first and one of the best realistic portraits of a young American girl, the slyest commentary on the difference in romantic Southern and Northern ways of doing the same thing, it was also one of the greatest failures in U. S. publishing. The book went out of print; the blonde and charming Miss Ravenel was forgotten, along with her dashing but dishonest Colonel Carter; their...
...meant to reflect or relieve. As distinct from the Symbolist, Surrealist, Imagist or Metaphysical poets, who seem to borrow from Music, Psychology, Painting and Mathematical Physics their respective poetic first principles, these poets seem to borrow theirs from the demotic art of Architecture. Most dazzling of the lot, yet slyest, is W. H. Auden; sincerest and slickest, Stephen Spender; most headlong, most jerry-built, C. Day Lewis; most prosy and homeliest, Louis MacNeice...