Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Scribner's Commentator featured a story by Columnist Hugh Johnson calling for No More Aid to Britain. A cartoon showed Franklin Roosevelt as a hockey goalie leaving his goal undefended to skate on Europe's thin ice. In other issues recently Commentator has denounced Dorothy Thompson, H. V. Kaltenborn (a onetime Commentator editor), Playwright Robert Sherwood, Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, Walter Lippmann, William Allen White, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, and PM's backer Marshall Field III as "Internationalists" conspiring to force the U. S. into...
...Passion (by Edward Chodorov & H. S. Kraft, produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers). Advance notices hinted that this play was about Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson. The hint can be disregarded. The drama begins as an acid study of the relations between a jaded, unsavory novelist (George Coulouris) and his wife, part journalist, part demon, played by sinister Gale Sondergaard, whose performances here and in the cinema (The Letter) mark her as the female viper of the dramatic year...
...prevailing mood in Washington was gloom. Apprehensively the country read the Washington columnists, whose reports of U. S. defense preparations read last week like the opening chapters of so many ghost stories. "We are in a pause," gloomed Columnist Ray Clapper (Scripps-Howard). "Slump," wailed Columnist Dorothy Thompson (New York Herald Tribune), who printed reports that the President is in a "down" mood. Even Franklin Roosevelt's closest adherents questioned his two-week cruise; wondered how he dared leave. Washington seemed to be sinking back into the swamp whence it was reclaimed...
...thorns of life! I bleed!" Responsible for this conception is Shelley's official biographer, Professor Edward Dowden, and a whole school of Victorian apologists. They have busily sold Shelley as an inspired listener to skylarks, with an unfortunate but irrelevant "interest in social revolution. Critic-Poet Francis Thompson advised would-be Shelleyans to "peep over the wild mass of revolutionary metaphysics" and discover that Bysshe (rhymes with pish) was just an "enchanted child...
More important is Biographer White's reappraisal of Shelley as a mind. By bringing together a mass of 19th-Century critical opinion, Author White shows that Shelley's contemporaries understood him much better than Apologists Thompson, Dowden, et al. By placing Shelley squarely in his French Revolutionary context, Author White highlights Shelley's real meaning for our time. In a day when the same old exaltation of the masses, the same revolutionary terror and dictatorship, have culminated in World War II, the family line from Marat to Lenin to Mussolini to Hitler is revealed as passing through...