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...that this theory leads Mrs. Shephard into difficulties is an understatement: it practically floors her. Pursuing it with the vehement, triumphant air of a gossip on the trail of scandal, she gives pages of evidence that Whitman contradicted himself-which he never denied- pages to show that despite his professions of all-embracing love he had explosions of temper, pages to show that he wrote a lot of nonsense and that his disciples wrote even more...
When the eastern branch of the American Psychological Association convened in Manhattan last week, no less than three papers were read on the Rhine question, all of them hostile. Small, vehement Psychologist Hyman Rogosin of New York City declared that...
...Catholic Church is the largest in Canada, representing 41% of the popula tion, 85% in the French-speaking Province of Quebec. Last week a vehement protest against the Padlock Law was registered by a religious minority group, the Social Service Council of Canada, in which the principal Protestant churches participate. The council called the law "dangerously vague, beyond the authority of the Province of Quebec, contrary to the fundamental rights of a British citizen, contrary to public policy in Canada and menacing to the educational rights of religious minorities...
Although critics might complain that they could not always tell what Editor De Voto was driving at, they had to admit that he more than made up for the amiable neutrality that had previously characterized the Saturday Review. Writing in a prose style so vehement it sometimes seemed apoplectic, Editor De Voto raged at U. S. intellectuals, accusing them en masse of "misrepresenting" the country. He passionately championed the cause of the Italian sociologist, Pareto. His critical haymakers included swings at Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Marx, reformers and believers in planned societies, Van Wyck Brooks, progressive education. With enthusiasms just...
...Although that story was the climax of her career, it made up the dullest chapters of her book. Long (488 pages), overcrowded with the names of poets, A Poet's Life seems both tired and genteel, as if Harriet Monroe had made a last attempt to make her vehement, impoverished, helter-skelter poets intelligible and respectable to plain middleclass, middle-Western citizens, but found their careers as contradictory as their poems...