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...Lonely Crowd (373 pp.)-with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer-Yale ($4). Others: Faces in the Crowd (741 pp.)-Yale ($5); Thorstein Veblen (209 pp.)-Scribner ($2.75); The Lonely Crowd (349 pp.)-Doubleday (95?); Individualism Reconsidered (507 pp.) -Free Press...
...intellectual comedy which runs approximately from Sterne's Tristram Shandy, through Peacock's novels, down via The Egoist to much of Oscar Wilde, Shaw and even the early Aldous Huxley. And yet, Meredith remains as freakishly separate from these other links in the literary chain as does Thorstein Veblen in the chain of social philosophers-and for much the same reasons. He tried to depict life accurately, but, in Wilde's words: "His style would be quite sufficient of itself to keep life at a respectful distance...
...Savage World. Thorstein Veblen also cast a jaundiced eye on the bourgeoisie. A nonconformist who might have been one of Sinclair Lewis' village atheists, he was born on the American frontier of Norwegian parents. Among other peculiarities, he locked his watch to his vest with a large safety pin and he'd up his socks with two pins moored to his pants. His idea of a joke was to return a borrowed sack to a farmer with a hornet's nest inside. Acidly sardonic, he called religion "the fabrication of vendible imponderables in the nth dimension," religious...
...Notably Thorstein Veblen who, in 1899, wrote: "Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure...
...certainties began to crumble before the blows of science and the resulting new philosophies. After that, he is understandably content to give up trying to frame the mind of the most complex of all nations and moves rapidly through such routine academic assignments as William James and Pragmatism, Thorstein Veblen and the New Economics, the Literature of Revolt...