Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small graveyard at the corner of Garden Street" (p. 146). The only two really rewarding parts of the "Atmosphere" section are Richard H. Seder's long, but very readable and, I found, rather moving poem on the frustrations of communicating love, and an excellent, but unfortunately anonymous photographic essay called "Impressions of the Night...
...your article concerning the seven chosen [for the first manned space flight - April 20]: the essay about Marine Lieut. Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr. was stupendous! Like we sing in the Marine Corps Hymn...
...however, the majority was against such expansion. What is significant are their reasons: "commuters are too homogenous a group," and "commuters are cheated out of college life." One non-resident even expressed the thought, "commuting is, generally speaking, a drag," and another unhappy student closed his little essay with these words: "war and commuting--they're both hell...
...Hedda Hopper, Elliot Norton of Hearst's Daily Record, William Van-Lennep, Joel Henning, and the editors. The latter's attack on CRIMSON drama criticism fails to slay a dragon that is probably much easier prey than The Advocate, unaccountably, estimates. Apart from its misrepresentation and misquotation, the essay is inoffensive to the Plympton Street conscience. It is more offensive to the community conscience, however, for it warns people not to believe everything they read in the papers. Not even newspapermen ask readers to do that...
With the exception of Julius Novick's article in extended praise of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, and Paul Riesman's essay on "mentally fat professors," the quality of the writing in the first issue of Gadfly is surpassed only by a mediocre Gen. Ed. essay. Also included in this issue is a short piece in French, which, after reading, I leave for the more esoteric to interpret, and an enigmatic scrawl on art and Ezra Pound written for a very special "in-group" to discuss over their Turkish tea at the Cafe Mozart...