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...brilliant, unkempt figure of Heywood Broun lumbered back into the newspaper business again last week. For four months Mr. Broun has been writing for The Nation (which avers his contributions added 7,000 readers); other weeklies and monthlies. In August the famed columnist struck when the World refused to print columns on Sacco-Vanzetti. Bright exponent of "personal journalism," he demanded the right to write what he please. By contract obligations to the World he was helpless to write for newspapers...
...Princeton. "Men who know and care about what to wear," reads the legend underneath, "gather at these places for business, pleasure, or social activities" Cambridge, to the sartorial lexicographer of Hart. Schaffner and Marx, is terra incognita, a wild land whence explorers bring back tales of wild and unkempt savages, untailored philistines...
...unnecessary and inappropriate?for Havelock Ellis is neither sensational nor combative?to suggest, as does his flamboyant biographer, that he is another Leonardo, a Professor, a Nietzschean superman, an Anglo-Saxon Tagore, a full-blooded Shaw, a Carlyle without dyspepsia, "a less unkempt Walt Whitman," "a less distracted Tolstoi" and "the complete anti-Kipling." It appears, simply, that if life is a dance, as Ellis has suggested, then he is one of the greatest, gravest dancing masters, a sane anarchist with a cosmic sense of humor...
...department, knew them all. The professor's average was 6.07; the journalists' 6.5; the litterateurs' 5.88; and the business peoples' 4.4. Professor Pitkin was startled by this showing. So he turned to what he considered another pole of culture, to sophisticated college students, to the unkempt, dizzy bohemians of Greenwich Village. He even had himself admitted to the stuffy interiors of theatres. Here among the scorned of the show world, in dismal surroundings, he found the best record of all. True, none knew all Ten Commandments. Yet one knew nine, two knew eight. Their average...
...Significance. Standing before this bear-cage in the literary zoo we say: What an enormous creature! How shaggy and powerful! How he lumbers about, yet they say a grizzly can outrun a horse! And when we have gazed our fill, we say: What a dirty, littered cage! An unkempt bruted labor through it. Mr. Dreiser has declined to improve his knowledge of the English language, and while he is a painstaking reporter, he is a very indifferent craftsman. For him it is more honest to ramble on for 840 pages than to attempt compression and readable sentences. Genius gleams fitfully...