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Greetings at the Wall. The unpleasantest noises about Berlin from the Red side last week were provided by Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, who. with Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz, journeyed to East Berlin. Gomulka has long been considered a relatively independent and "respectable" Communist, and there had been much speculation that he loathed Walter Ulbricht's nasty East German regime. But in public, at least, he could scarcely have been more obliging: he denounced West Germany, demanded Western withdrawal from Berlin and an early peace treaty. He visited the Wall, the world's most obscene tourist attraction, and signed...
Fact was that to most Democrats, including Senator Robinson, Passamaquoddy had by last week become one of the unpleasantest words in the language. Apparently doomed were this $36,000,000 Maine tide-harnessing project and the $146,000,000 Florida Ship Canal when, after Congress had refused to appropriate money to continue them, President Roosevelt washed his hands of the two ventures. He had started them on relief money without consulting Congress, now declared it was up to Congress to finish them. But the President had already tossed $5,500,000 over the Maine dam, sunk...
...dwelling on the pathological and perverted, that all this belongs in the medical laboratory rather than in the ranks of literature?that is my general opinion. However, I must say that I am frequently caught by what I do feel is, occasionally, a beautifully rhythmical style, and, at his unpleasantest, some times, a singularly moving power, as in I Want to Know Why, Brothers and many of the Wineburg, Ohio sketches. But it is inchoate, stumbling, strange; and art, after all, must, I fancy, be more clear-cut than this, must be, in Anglo-Saxon literature at least, most carefully...
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