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...Nations. There, in passionate, blunt speeches, delivered in an English that was both Cockney and Slavic in accent, he became the apostle of disarmament, of collective security, and of opposition to the Nazis. "Peace is indivisible" was his famous phrase. He was personally liked and respected-a far warmer person than the cunning Vishinsky or the robot Gromyko -but only the gullible believed that there was a Litvinoff policy that differed from a Stalin policy...
...these writers than he has for Edith Wharton and her skilled and snobbish novels about rich New Yorkers. "She was always ready with cold stares," complains Brooks, "for those who encroached in any way on the small caste-prerogatives that she valued so much . . ." He turns with a warmer eye to the lumbering Hoosier, Theodore Dreiser, with his industrial America, his farm girls looking for jobs and fun in the big city, his drummers spreading the gospel of the fast buck. For all his muddled clumsiness, Dreiser was the spiritual father of almost every important U.S. writer since. He persuaded...
...Short Walk there is a new McGinley, not only warmer but better, a suburban Frost who shows all the signs of trying to slip unobtrusively from light verse into homely poetry...
...when cotton will be grown in the state of New York and corn far north in Ontario. Last week Dr. George H. T. Kimble, British-born director of the American Geographical Society, told the New York Publicity Club that the climate of the North Atlantic region is growing unmistakably warmer...
From what they have read so far, glaciologists suspect that since the last major ice age the earth's climate grew gradually warmer until about 5,000 B.C. Then the cold came again, and the glaciers reached a secondary peak about the time of Christ. Again the climate grew warm, allowing Scandinavians to live happily in Greenland. Then came another cold period and the Greenland Norse disappeared...