Word: vierecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallach contends that Father Feeney's St. Benedict's Center fails to meet one of these criteria, the academic fitness of the teaching staff. He termed Father Feeney last night "a local religious version of George Sylvester Viereck and Father Coughlin before he saw his errors...
...only hope for American literature, Lewisohn concluded, is to be found in the work of such prose writers as Thornton Wilder, and such modern poets as Frederic Prokosch, Karl Shapiro, and Peter Viereck. He especially commended Vierock, who, he said, has been alone in his attempt to "convey with lucidity and power certain fundamental realities. of the spirit of man-which is the true purpose of all literature...
...younger poets were worth reading: Randall Jarrell's Losses, an honest try at putting wartime experience into verse; John Berryman's The Dispossessed, technically impressive but marred by self-pity ; Peter Viereck's Terror and Decorum, flippant and satiric...
...rest of the committee. In the fall and winter of the first year, they attacked Harry Bridges, Frances Perkins, Frank Murphy (then governor of Michigan), Harold Ickes, and other notables. Father Coughlin, Gerald L. K. Smith, and patriots of that kidney were somehow unnoticed. George Sylvester Viereck, who was chummier with Hitler than Lanny Budd, skipped away without any damage whatsoever...
...George Sylvester Viereck, 63, war-to-war propagandist for Germany. A stout defender of Kaiser Wilhelm in War I and of Adolf Hitler in War II, poetasting Journalist Viereck in 1943 began a one-to-five-year sentence (as a German agent) in the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Last week, having been released 18 months short of the maximum for good behavior, he was in good shape, said his lawyer, and had written a novel...