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...second problem in Seeger's struggle with the Congress was unwittingly outlined by Prosecutor Younger in his criticism of the defense attorney's "Alice-in-Wonderland logic." This same term may paradoxically be employed to describe the HUAC's Alice-like wonder at the folk singer's material. How could the same Peter Seeger who recognized the evils of war in popularizing "Down By the Riverside" recognize a similar evil in the men starving during the depression of the 30's while "The banks are made of marble?" For a convincing performer there is no such entity as a polite...
...summation, Seeger's lawyer, Paul L. Ross, contended that Seeger's replies to the Committee stating his refusal to answer were "good faith answers, even though not the response desired by the Committee." This contention, the prosecutor said later, had "an Alice-in-Wonderland logic...
...Wonderland by Night (Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra; Dacca). An import from Germany that rocks on its mistily melodic way like an old-fashioned excursion steamer. The orchestra is expert, the vintage Prom Trotter...
...Many a parody ends as a work of art in its own right, its original forgotten; the brilliant parasite fly emerges from the husk of its host. As "an antiquarian thrill," Macdonald offers the reader the original pious rhymes upon which Lewis Carroll based his verses in Alice in Wonderland. Demonstrating some sparkling footnotework, Macdonald has ranged the whole wide field of self-declared parody. He starts with Chaucer (only students of Mid. Eng. Lit. will get much of this one) and winds up with the latest chic spoof of Truman Capote based on a New York Times Book Review...
...Junior's copy of Winnie-the-Pooh in his other hand, the Lenard translation will readily provide a week or so of verbal fun and fireside games-a contribution to nursery literature that can only be compared to E. L. Kerney's translation of Alice in Wonderland into Esperanto...