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Callous critics have tried to detect the underlying principles and sublime morals in the function. It was for just such as these that Mark Twain prescribed shooting for those that sought a moral in Huckleberry Finn. But no one need heed these defilers of the Freshman's pleasure. Whether it represents the climax of the first year, the matriculation into full-fledged Sophomores, or any of many other symbols, no one very much cares. But everyone will at least agree that the Standish back-yard (or smith Common room, as the Fates decide) has never been graced with more delightful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRIKE UP THE BAND | 5/29/1928 | See Source »

...self-satisfied ass thriving in a smug over-convenient America, 1928 model. Lively audiences yawn, groan, escape him, but posterity, trapped by the author's undeniable virtuosity in the spoken word, will listen and believe that the mechanistic ass was typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh to the "honest-to-God master genius" who invented the electric ice box. Author Lewis has concocted the synthetic Schmaltzian horror, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Mechanistic Ass | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...none of these cases is the danger without its remedy. To each of the problems, Mr. Mazur has his answer, simple, based on common sense, without a flaw in the logic that any business man could detect: but perhaps because if its very clarity not entirely to be trusted by the scholars in economics...

Author: By P. H. T., | Title: New Novels of the Spring | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...seldom scholarly writing, and indeed these books lay no claim to the latter title. Written, one by the political authority of the eminent Baltimore Sun, the other by a Princeton professor, both books will be chiefly of lay interest. Both authors are well-informed, authoritive, and unbiased. Scholars will detect occasional minor flaws, but will be impressed with the shrewdness of interpretations given to party platforms, campaign pledges, election results...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. A History. By Frank R. Kent. The Century Co. New York, 1928. $5.00. | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Although both he and Miss Thompson were oppressed by the feeling of being constantly spied upon, and although each tried the experiment of leaving private papers in calculated disarray around their hotel rooms, neither was ever able to detect the slightest tampering with their documentary bait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovietdom Penetrated | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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