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Writing "In Praise of Dissent" in the New York Times Book Review, ex-Librarian of Congress Archibald Mac-Leish, now a Harvard professor of literature, tipped his mortarboard—with reservations—to Fascist-embracing Poet Ezra Pound and his eleven latest Cantos, composed in the Washington hospital where Pound has spent eleven years as a mental patient, adjudged unfit to be tried for treason in 1945. MacLeish freely admits: "Some of his dissents have been merely strident: his raging at Roosevelt throughout the Cantos sounds as though it had...
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