Word: examing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Artful Equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam #40. Then our lynx-eyelids droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such: but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th Century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now, one such might be droll enough...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic'" exam-period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted on Monday; I almost suspect this socalled "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--The Bad Guys--than one of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
Movie reviewers are pretty hard to find during exam period, so this review of The Savage Eye comes too late for anyone to catch it at the Brattle. But it's still worth seeing...
Every so often the CRIMSON reprints the following exam-period article. Written by Donald Carswell '50, it appeared originally in June of 1950. It won the Dana Reed Prize for that year, and also helped a fair number of people to succeed in beating the system--which is always gratifying to Us and threatening to Them...
...other two. Again the concern is with resentment between generations and unfulfilled expectations. But in these, which probably relate more directly to her own life, Miss Olsen's unique style, so powerful elsewhere, seems contrived; Nonetheless, they are both moving and certainly well worth an hour of exam period procrastination. "Tell Me a Riddle" alone makes of Tillie Olsen a superb short story writer...