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...curates and "Dublin's holy hooliganism" in the cold clarity of learning and the classical grandeur of the Church. At the other angle of the triangle is Dermot Francis O'Flingsley, the rebellious schoolmaster who attacks the Canon and the Church as being cruelly aloof from the pain and squalor of life. And at the apex is Brigid, the simple child who was visited by the spirit of her namesake, St. Brigid and who, dying, left the two men she loved alone in their bitterness...
...northern journalist ever wrote so pungently of the South's squalor as Southerner Erskine Caldwell (Tobacco Road). This week a southern journalist, Jonathan Daniels, published a more sympathetic account of the South...
...inherent weaknesses of his position. It is admitted that if people are allowed to choose their own courses free from dictation, they will blunder as often as proceed wisely. The inertia and occasional impotence of democracy are freely conceded. The communist is allowed to write a novel about the squalor that our economic system allows, as seen in the sharecroppers of the Mississippi delta...
Crime, disease and juvenile delinquency are shown spawning in the squalor of "old-law" tenements,* of which 67,000 still exist in Manhattan. The horror of a cholera epidemic which ravaged the slums in the last century is vividly projected. (Today's scourge: tuberculosis.) Two scenes show the panic when fire sweeps through the tenement's rickety hallways...
...Their only consistency is inconsistency." The word "except" is grammatically unsupported, and "consistently" is a filler elbowishly attempting to link a couplet with one preceding. In the next group of sentences, which I can compesitely number (5), the satirist temporarily abandons satire for a hurried description of municipal squalor. The passage is undigested and out of control. The professional coupleteer such as Gay or Churchill does not pamper his polemic with unadulterated description. Sentence (6) impulsively reassumes a satirical tone, but inasmuch as the preceding description has not been made convincingly inhuman enough, Hillyer's conclusion has a fatuous unearned...