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Author Wright, anticipating biased criticism from jealous critics, says: "They who pride themselves on being too sophisticated and worldly-wise to indulge in sentiment . . . will laugh with hard laughter . . . will say that Antonio Latour's story 13 sentimental bosh. . . . Well ... I make no claim to literary equality with these sophisticated gentry. But of this I am convinced: All normal men and women who have truly lived to have such emotional memories. . . . No, I have no illusions?I know that I am not so skilled in the art of writing as these proud, unemotional dealers in words. I am only more...
...brunt of the Dry attack was borne by William Seaver Woods, Digest editor. Again and again Dr. Woods insisted his magazine was neutral. "Bosh." he retorted to all Dry charges, as he carefully explained that the 20,000,000 ballots sent out were scientifically apportionated to each state on the 'basis of population, that past events had proved Digest polls 95% accurate, that duplications were infinitesimal...
...Norbert Wiener, mathematician of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, last week published in the Technology Review some remarks on Mathematician Albert Einstein. Two points he made: 1) that all the talk about Einstein being "incomprehensible" is bosh, so far as mathematicians are concerned; 2) that there is as yet no final Einstein Theory−the document published last January is but part of a chain of thought; 3) Einstein has already noted deficiencies in his January work, modified it and progressed to further conclusions...
Streets of Sorrow. Here is a German film, about which, in the interests of international good will, the less said the better. The locale is Vienna; time, post-War period; heroine, a daughter of the poor but honest; villain, a son of the rich but rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever...
...plans for approval by the trustees, Dartmouth having dropped chapel compulsion completely,* all within the fortnight, the students of Amherst College cried out upon the religious duties exacted from them. Said The Amherst Student: "Is not Amherst out of step with the modern liberal trend? Certainly the sickly tedious bosh which too often passes here for formal Religion can have no attraction to a virile mind. Unless religion can stand erect and challenging without the prop of attendance statistics, it deserves to topple into obscurity...