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...Literary Fallacy consists of five lectures given by DeVoto. Purportedly a re-examination of the literary '20s, most of it is given over to a vehement tirade, strident as a soapbox oration, against Van Wyck Brooks and his The Flowering of New England. What may have puzzled Indiana students, and is likely to puzzle readers who pay $2.50 to share their experience, is Mr. DeVoto's belligerence. With a chip on his shoulder the size of a two-by-four, with many a dubious assertion insisted on with the finality of the village atheist, and with sideswipes...
...Author. Lillian Smith is a vehement, forceful, articulate spokesman for a new Southern reformist movement that still needs to be explicitly defined. Of medium height, youthfully middleaged, with her prematurely grey hair piled high above her 'high forehead, she reached literary work and social reform way of music teaching in a Methodist missionary school in China, secretaryship to a city manager in Georgia, running the swanky girls' summer camp her father founded in Clayton, Ga., and editing a literary magazine...
...Major Alberto Taborga, strong-armed Minister of the Interior, was replaced by tall, serious Lieut. Colonel Alfredo Pacheco, chief of the Air Force, who once studied flying in the U.S. Twenty-nine-year-old Rafael Otazo, vehement against nearly everything, replaced Minister of Agriculture Carlos Montenegro, who has much the same reputation. Nervous, nationalistic Walter Guevara became Secretary General of the Government in place of Augusto Cespedes, moving spirit of the newspaper La Calle, once blacklisted...
...Vehement protests I am receiving against our use of flame throwers do not indicate an understanding of the meaning of our dead on the beaches of Tarawa...
This statement precipitated a general attack upon the two major points of Fernsworth's speech. His remark about the danger of American bureaucracy drew forth even more vehement arguments than the aforementioned one on British governmental training. Dr. Salvemini took little part in this discussion...