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...culture clubs, lyceums and Chautauqua, Phelps delivered some 10,000 cheery lectures to some five million delighted listeners. On the air for Swift's hams and the Heinz 57 varieties, he was the literate housewife's delight. To his equal glow for the great and the trivial in books ("As I grow older I find Shakespeare more thrilling, more enchanting; yet I relish a good detective story"), Phelps added the seductions of wit† and a stock of anecdotes about literary greats he had known (Galsworthy, Barrie, Maeterlinck, Conrad, Shaw, et al.). To critical literary contemporaries, Phelps...
...organ; it is possibly the sign of a deprivation-our suspicion of gaiety in art perhaps signifies an inadequate seriousness in ourselves. A generation charmed by the lugubrious-once in O'Neill, Dreiser and Anderson, now in Steinbeck and Van Wyck Brooks-is perhaps fleeing from the trivial shape of its own thoughts...
Shortage of Valets. Complaints and demands are constant. Higher Italian officers beef about not having enough valet service. They want to buy more phonographs, especially big electric models (some have money of their own). One German officer demanded a canary. Both Germans and Italians worry the guards with trivial requests-like going for beer after hours. Common complaint: not enough mail. POWs are permitted to send two letters, one postcard a week...
...Except for those two trivial items the jeep is a divine instrument of wartime locomotion. . . . Good Lord, I don't think we could continue the war without...
Nationalists. Kootz, who once cracked in the New York Times that "Cézanne made an apple important; Benton ... a lynching trivial," makes another attack on Thomas Hart Benton and his fellow U.S. nationalists. Says Kootz: "Benton and Wood, Curry and Marsh . . . went American so raucously, so insistently, that they provided and inspired an enormous flood of dull, routine anecdotes. . . . Each of the nationalist lads has his own little counter to set up trade. From it he dispenses post cards, heavy with facts, guaranteed to counteract any itch that jeopardizes a continued comfort...