Word: drunkeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose: the reader, having finished them, emerges into a world that seems slightly more cockeyed than before. To name the winner in this scientific free-for-all would be like trying to decide who wins the early-morning arguments in which all the disputers are brilliant and all drunk...
...told in the personal, random style of a farmer's almanac. Animal husbandry alternates with tributes to his wife; poetic fervor ("you want to sing, dance, yell, get drunk, and pray") is mixed with the technique of shearing; observations on the sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...
Members of the cast, except for the chorus, have been tentatively chosen. Oscar Hausserman '38 will take the part of the punch-drunk pugilist, Beaudegarde Schmaltz. David Glueck '38 will play Lava Lucille, a South Sea Island Princess...
Author O'Connor writes in a bold, colloquial, summarizing prose, with paragraphs trailing off into dull anticlimaxes ("When he got so he couldn't stand it any longer he'd go into Phoenix and get blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about...
...College journalism is not too far a cry from metropolitan journalism for us to realize, as our work on The Dartmouth draws to a close, that America is drunk with NEWS, not with TRUTHS, and that the confusion of "impartial" and "accurate" reporting with genuine portrayal of the actual situation is an evil that reaches deep into the ineffectiveness of our public opinion...