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...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the historically unjustified name Hollywood has given to the turgid tragedy of Joaquin Murieta. He was a simple peon whose fate, according to this picture, was typical of all California Mexicans after los Americanos usurped the State...
Long since turned to dust in a London cemetery, Karl Marx lives on in the turgid periods of Das Kapital and in the reverent thoughts of all right-minded Communists. That other god of the Soviet Olympus, Nikolai Lenin, remains visible in Moscow where science has kept the Russian Dictator's corpse intact for eleven years. Last week the Lenin tomb was closed to the public while Soviet workers busily installed air-conditioning equipment with a view to preserving the sacred remains for at least a century more...
Milton is traditionally supposed to have been the great Puritan poet, but Belloc says the tradition is wrong: Milton was not a Puritan but a Unitarian. During his lifetime he shocked England by his turgid pamphleteering for divorce; at his death he cautiously left unpublished a lengthy Latin treatise, De Doctrina Christiana, "a refutation of the Trinity, of Monogamy, of the absolute Creator, even of the immortal soul." When Charles II was restored, Milton hurriedly got rid of a mass of incriminating papers, including the dangerous De Doctrina. The manuscript eventually found its way to the Record Office, lay there...
...that year Publisher Adolph Ochs so far foreswore his prejudice against signed columns as to spread a boxed daily review over the top of three Times columns, set young Mr. Chamberlain to writing it. Like few others, Bookman Chamberlain has resisted the pressure to submerge his style in the turgid stupidity of the Times. Conscientious, he spends about five hours a day reading, three more writing. Healthy, pink-cheeked, he wears a hat only in downpours. He plays tennis summer and winter, hard and often, with his smart, blonde wife, Peggy...
Dreiser's report of the Wilkes-Barre trial last week likewise was an indictment of the "system." And, like the novel, his accounts were turgid, myopic, verbose, sorely needing the astringent blue pencil of a copy desk. He seemed to be arguing that had the boy had more money, he would not have got himself or his girl into trouble. Clearest point: "I am inclined to agree with the French that crimes which concern love and passion and the ambition of youth are nothing which the law, in its cold, calculating and in the main commercial mood, should have anything...