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Poet Jeffers, though gentle (he has never killed an animal) is not shy; though not shy he is not sociable, seeks neither the companionship of old friends nor acquaintanceship with new. Towards local Californians. as toward the human species as a whole, he is reserved, cold...
...times the ambitious ends of life have made it seem to me lonely, but it has not been. You have given me the companionship of dear friends who have helped to keep alive the fire in my heart. If I could think that I had sent a spark to those who come after, I should be ready to say good...
...sweeps on with a flippant grandeur to evolve a series of serious charges. Offering as his proof a penchant for mossy Oxonian intellectuality and an unpalatable homily on football over-emphasis, he states dogmatically that "the American undergraduate has neither time nor energy for intellectual relations," that "the companionship of the opposite sex, synthetic gin, and cinema satisfy his simple needs." Leading up to is final revelation, he alleges that the American college product is "frankly unintelligent," and then, with touching faith in his premise, repeats it in epigrammatic form, thus imparting unity to his logic...
...repairing the street, among them a tall, dignified old man of 75 named Lawrence Smith, whose white mane and long white mustache seemed to betoken a distinguished past. In & out of the Ruby abode pranced a black spitz bitch named Fluffy, raising her family, amusing the sick girl, bringing companionship into the life of old Laborer Smith. Then one day last week Covetousness reared its ugly head...
...opposite sex. Their future life partners are for them enigmas. They see them only under artificial circumstances, at dances and other social functions. Their attitude towards sex tends to become morbid and unhealthy. They have never learned by working together to adjust themselves to each other. The natural companionship between the sexes, which is so necessary for happy married life, is denied them...