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...military crusade of the working class against the middle class were Karl Marx, atheist offspring of several long lines of respected rabbis, and Friedrich Engels, amiable son of a prosperous Rhenish textile tycoon. Marx brought to this crusade a stupendous knowledge of Hegelian philosophy, a brilliant economic mind, trenchant political discernment, a complete inability to earn a living, a perfect willingness to let Friend Engels earn one for him. Marx was also one of the most vituperative geniuses who ever lived. Favorite Marxian epithets for friends and foes alike: Dog! Bedbug! Swine! Pot! Blockhead! Cow! Says Author Wilson...
...City, N. Y., poetasty Playwright Maxwell Anderson (What Price Glory?, Mary of Scotland, Winterset) won a prize for the local artists' colony by a bit of trenchant prose. His composition: "The increasing odor from the pig pen which is wafted constantly to the study in which I write . . . is so rank that unless corrected it will force me to abandon my home." The prize: a civic order limiting the number of pigs to 20 at any one time in any one place in the township. Mr. Anderson objected to a large, newly-built pen which housed 200 pigs...
Conscription has the sole advantage of preparing the country for future contingencies. Against this must be set the many trenchant disadvantages of the plan. The first and most important is that inauguration of military training would be the biggest possible stride towards participation in the present European war. A huge army is unnecessary for hemisphere defense at present and would only serve to raise the military mentality to the ascendency. A natural concomitant of conscription would be the breeding of a fatalistic attitude. War would take on, for the American people, an inevitability which it does not merit. The American...
Such hardihood was not welcome to Melville's time. But Melville had a spiritual successor in William Graham Sumner, a hardheaded thinker who began at Yale in 1872 a study he called the "science of society." Professor Gabriel is as trenchant, critical and readable on Sumner as he is on Adams, James, Royce and 19th-20th Century thinkers generally. And he rescues Sumner's importance from the forgetful obloquy it has suffered (outside New Haven) in recent years...
...that "Of Mice and Men" has finally made its appearance on celluloid, even the most ardent Steinbeck fans will shamefacedly withdraw their objections. For Hal Roach retells the story of George, the migrant farmer, and his protege, the idiot Lennie, with the same simplicity and sinceity, the same trenchant poignancy, as Mr. Steinback. Packed with grim reality, gripping in its psychological depth, "Of Mice and Men" the movie, does no more nor less than the novel,: it lays open some facts of life, plainly and eloquently...