Word: balderdash
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Farge has been unable to maintain the exquisite balance of form and substance that makes Robinson's best poems so exactly right, so stark and simple and inevitable; yet when Mr. La Farge falters into prose, his idea gives sufficient impetus to rush the reader along. Without lapsing into "balderdash" on the one hand or the "sour beer" attitude on the other, to quote his terms, he has been penetrating enough to embody the spirit of a senior in a fashion adapted with fine appropriateness to the occasion of commencement, and to give a truthful picture of the mental antithesis...