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… set of values “some of which are deplorable, obviously, but also some of which are the best things that I have ever had … of personal influence. But Ransom, Tate, and Warren had become major figures in the literary world, and Brooks, … instead of writing as a survivor, he is now one who will die early in the same war. Even the name Marsman may have …

… Studies in Domesticated Aggression The President Makers. By Matthew Josephson. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.75. The Pattern of Politics. By J. T. Salter. … is retold by the author, every jot and shred of evidence points conclusively to Ballinger’s guilt. Mr. Josephson …

… A Crusader for the Uncommon Man Irving Babbitt: Selected Writings. Edited with an … Irving Babbitt, professor of French literature at Harvard, died in 1933, having taught and influenced thousands of … of his adult life in an ivory tower. As Professor Panichas points out in his introduction, Babbitt’s was not “a …

… flock of gulls. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how we come to love an unlikely place, the way time and attention not only reveal beauty but also grant a sense of belonging, the feeling of being … (In my notes I’ve written, “where old ships go to die.”) So this is what I’ve got. A tally of things made and …

… fog of uncertainty, with all the really important reference points lost in the mists of the immediate future. But the … which they themselves had generated. Modernization had become as inevitable in the United States as it was proving to … run with the slightest chance of success. Names are bandied about—Mr. Wallace, Mr. Byrnes, Justice Douglas—but …