ABSTRACT
To young radicals like Walter Lippmann the world was waiting to be reborn, and a beneficent providence had put the tools in their hands. Lippmann managed to capture the energies of an era just discovering cubism and symbolism, psychoanalysis and syndicalism. Lippmann's ideas were changing rapidly. He had indulged himself in what he had called "some necessary iconoclasm". Lippmann's novel interpretation of Freud's concepts soon reached Vienna. Lippmann used Freud's work imaginatively, though not as wisely as he might have done had the ideas been more familiar. Lippmann desperately tried to salvage the Evening by lobbing sympathetic questions at Haywood. But the Wobbly leader seemed more interested in the adoring young society ladies gathered around his chair, and mumbled unintelligibly. Lippmann had little patience for such carryings-on. Backed by Alfred Kuttner and Lee Simonson he urged Mabel to give some shape to her Evenings.
