Word: vierecks
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...tragic thing when TIME prints such a vile set of non sequiturs as Poet Viereck has spewed forth...
...Poet Viereck must recognize as a historian that Gaylord [Babbitt] is a casualty in a sociological cultural change...
...Thank you for giving wider currency to the wise words of Peter Viereck on the protean Babbitt [TIME, July...
Poet-Historian Viereck, true to the essence of anti-Babbittry, thinks the country is going to the dogs because of them. A junior anti-Babbitt, however, he mongers new-style stereotyped cliches to put across his point. Naive domestic Babbitts without any breeding will continue to prefer cleverness to wisdom...
...Says Viereck: "We don't need a 'century of the common man'; we have it already, "and it has only produced the commonest man, the impersonal and irresponsible and uprooted massman . . . The century of the common man means a century of sterile and tyrannic philistinism, whether it be a philistinism of right or of left, of Colonel Blimp or of Comrade Blimp. A century that returns to the humanist ideal of the individual man must hold equally aloof from George Babbitt and Gaylord Babbitt...