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There are a few interesting selections in this Advocate anthology. A story by Howard Nemerov, some of the poems by Conrad Aiken and others, and the introduction by editor Hall are worth reading. But for the most part there seems to have been little reason for collecting the effluvia of adolescence even if it did forerun greatness...
...Being the party threatened, the editor is entitled to choice of weapons. [The threatener] may arm himself with cowdung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind in order that spectators may not be offended by his polecat effluvia...
...community can dodge the matter of censorship in some form, if only to have someone erase the literary effluvia of small boys and morons from lavatory walls. At what point this zeal must be curbed to avoid interference with genuine art is a difficult problem which Boston has assuredly not successfully solved. They made a real blunder some years ago in the matter of "Strange Interlude," and they attracted some noisy attention in the matter of Droiser's "American Tragedy" (the book, not the movie). Granting the extremely doubtful point that the second was "art," do you know...
...Bursar, parents, friends of the family, and you, Seniors, black reed wolves with your so called sheep's clothing, being sheep in wolf's clothing as you are. For the past few months our time has been occupied by composing the Class Poem, Oration and Ode. While these trifling effluvia of course required no deep concentration or constructive thought, yet we found that there was a certain fascination in this game of clothing Mother Goose rhymes with flowing garments of Miltonian or Homeric majesty. Especially were we pleased with our results in the case of the Ode, the original...
...meteors and related effluvia has the earth been compounded. A billion or more years ago, according to the planetesimal theory of the late Geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (TIME, Nov. 26). a star passed near to the sun, and by tidal action sucked the gases of a great sunburst out into space as a monster twirling gas mass.† The gas broke into eight main puffs which gradually coalesced into the eight planets-Mercury, Venus, Earth. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The first four are now more or less solid, the others very gaseous, Jupiter, the largest, being...