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...ISLANDS OF UNWISDOM (328 pp.)-Robert Graves-Doubleday...
...suggest that experience with the Prohibition Amendment indicates the unwisdom of attempting to determine long-range revolutionary policies in wartime. In our judgment, present commitment of the nation to a year of military service is unwise for the following reasons...
...commission's aim was outlined by Chairman Hutchins: "The commission plans to discover where free expression is or is not limited, whether by governmental censorship, pressures of readers or advertisers, the unwisdom of its own proprietors or the timidity of its managers...
Last week Dominion aircraft production engineers cursed in agreement with Canadian Aviation, which editorialed with discreet understatement: "The unwisdom of gearing most of the Canadian aircraft industry capacity to the British system is now apparent. The realities must be faced. The entire manufacturing plan will have to be overhauled and revised to mesh with American industry. We can thank God for the industrial power and the growing active support of the United States in the hour of direst need...
Less gifted in the controversy than the faculty is Mr. Loewi, author of an article on the "Feild Case." Without prejudice to the rights or wrongs of the now painful Case, a reviewer may point out the unwisdom of painting the devil all black. Dryden praised Achitophe the judge and Pope allowed Atticus true genius. Mr. Loewi shows a want of imagination, or at least of strategy, in claiming that the Department of Fine Arts was moved solely by personal vindictiveness in failing to reappoint Professor Feild...