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There were no codes, relief, no N. R. A., And a man was free to fix his pay, Free to loaf, labor or snore, Oh, come ye back, ye days of yore, When the eagle perched on the mountain...
Cummings is also bold enough to refer to Sally Rand's fan dance at the World's Fair in Chicago, but Cummings is somewhat less satirical than of yore, though, to be sure, he was never in the great tradition, since as a satirist he is unique in that he attacks people so powerful as to be indifferent (e.g., Comrade Stalin) or too weak to defend themselves (e.g., be-spectacled Radcliffe girls, professors leading castrated pups down Brattle and Kirkland Streets, tired business men, etc.) As a lyricist, on the other hand, he is the same as ever...
...that it was Wordsworth's adoption of Tory principles after his disgust with the French Revolution due to the invasion of Switzerland. "The Ecclesiastical Sonnets" are indeed sorry stuff after the "Tintern Abbey," the "Prelude" and the "Ode on Intimations of Immortality." "In fact," as a CRIMSON editor of yore once wrote, "most of Wordsworth's later poems written while he was a stamp-distributor or laureate have to be taken by us moderns with a bromo-seltzer!" This is a just criticism though it be advanced somewhat too vigorously...
...arts are represented, and by specimens which tend to be a persuasive, even if mute, testimony in an age of rampant modernism. In his well-written, though necessarily hurried, and even breathless, survey, Mr. Wickham pauses to inveigh against those modernist critics, who deprecate the masters of yore in order to extol "now a van Gogh, now a Picasso, now a Klee, now a Braque, now a Wadsworth, or now the art of the primitive Negroes or the Seljuka." That kind of criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against...
...wages" (i. e. in most cases union wages), President Roosevelt got crusty Conservative Glass on the wire to seek his aid. The liberal amendment would not only boost the expected cost of work relief 50% or more, it would make relief compete with industrial jobs, as CWA did of yore. The President asked, please, to have the amendment rubbed...