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...want to warn you not to expect too much. You remember when we were told by some American missionaries that we and our country were 'full of sins and how 'good Christian nation and ideal country America is'? Well, that's all bunk, I tell you. They are just the same human beings as we are, and not all the people go to church either, as you and I dreamed. I don't know why I was so dumb in believing every thing that those God's messengers told us without considering general human nature whatsoever...
...Lake boats and hotels and Pullman cars fitted with altars will transform themselves into ephemeral churches. Every Catholic family in the city has prepared itself to care for guests. So far as possible, foreigners (for thousands will come from abroad) will be housed with co-nationalists. The clergy will bunk in rectories?and in hotels. Honest innkeepers and food-purveyors have promised to maintain their regular charges...
...Bunk" Sirs: In TIME, March 22, under MEDICINE, appears "Virile Lorenz." I do not know how much -* and - -* paid you for this sort of "bunk", but I do know that I do not want TIME any more. Kindly take my name off your list of subscribers...
...Right to Kill, a drama from the Russian, and Bunk of 1926, a semi-amateur revue, appeared last week at outlying theatres. Both were crude...
Western civilization, be it bathtubian or bunk, is a reality which necessarily had to be analyzed by fictionists before they could use it as a medium for classic expression. The time has now come when the analysis is no longer new, no longer prepotent. Indeed one can easily believe with such critics as Carl Van Doren here and J. C. Squire in England that a real dawn is illuminating the field of American letters...