Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your classification of poets . . . makes a sorry exhibition of criticism. What does all your confident assertion about poets, poetasters, poeticules, and the function of communication mean? Not much I think, except your own sense of power-for one issue-over persons whom you obviously don't understand nor even recognize. Jeffers is a vasty poetaster, William Carlos Williams is a poetaster, Prokosch is an accomplished poetaster, Taggard is empty, nondescript, Donald Davidson is poeticulous, Fearing is a poeticule, say you. Where is your badge for all this authority? Probably it's a book by I. A. Richards...
Taxes. "It would be unwise . . . to impose drastic new taxes. . . . I think we might safely consider moderate tax increases which would approximately meet the increased expenditures on [national defense...
...latest when the Governorship was held by an old-line Republican (1928-30) and by a Democrat (1932-34). In 1934, however, Philip Fox La Follette, youngest of the sons, came back strong. Last fall Phil La Follette, running for his fourth term as Governor, was beginning to think he might extend Wisconsin's new deal over the whole nation, when he ran smack into a popular revulsion against new-dealing. Like more than a third of the States, Wisconsin turned around and elected a Republican, who clearly (against Wisconsin's background) suggested what may happen...
When we talk of new lands in Europe, we are bound to think first of Russia and her border states...
...really think that Stillman Infirmary is not so unsatisfactory as it may appear from your editorial...