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...best at the beginning of "The Good Society," where he attacks the totalitarian states as a throwback to the coercion of the Ancion Regime. Mr. Lippman compares the limited abilities of man with the complexities of modern society and asks how the planners can possibly be expected to have a sufficient grasp of the situation to plan wisely. . "The whole social process is beyond any man's comprehension . . . Men cannot direct the social process. They can only intervene here and there...
...writer. Whether he took an alias because he was afraid Deep Soundings would queer him with his usual Boy Scout audience, or because he wanted it to make its own way as a serious literary work, is hard to say. On the literary side the book is a straight throwback to Kipling and Jack London- a story involving the hazards of convoying merchant ships during the War, with a hero who, through duty and red-hot blood rather than patriotism, faces death as manfully as love. Added to this familiar pattern are modern touches of swearing, sex and disillusionment...
Internationally, a conservative English Cabinet will be "throwback" to the days of imperialism and Empire, antagonistic to internationalism and less attentive to world cooperation...
...Czech. She claims descent from Roger Williams and 14 Revolutionary ancestors; her grandfather was a pioneer on the Northwest coast of which she writes. But her violent Marxian melodrama will never be recommended by the Daughters of the American Revolution. (The one Daughter in the book is a throwback, impoverished into sympathy for her Red neighbors.) Marching! Marching! obeys the law of Marxian fiction in having no hero but half-a-dozen protagonists, each symbolizing some aspect of the proletarian struggle. In spite of her ancestry and her creed, Clara Weatherwax writes first-rate, first-hand U.S. prose that will...
...Brooklyn earlier the same day a hoodlum named Louis ("Pretty") Amberg, whose equally notorious brother Joseph had been murdered in a garage three weeks before, was hacked to death with a hatchet, left in a blazing sedan. Feeling as if the whole bloody business was some anachronistic throwback to the Prohibition Era, metropolitan police set about trying to make sense of the criminal carnage...