Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little magazine post-war prose suffers the same division, except it's a gap between old and new. The old: the grand-children of Twain and illegitimate sons of Hemingway who have come to confuse the simple sentence with literature and the monosyllable with wisdom--the crude words and rugged realism of men's magazines and college sophomores. This species of literature is dying along with the subconscious-childhood reverie. The new: Jack Kerouac's bastardization of the picar-esque tradition, the hipster vocabulary, the mystic meaningless words attached to a generation, where motion is meaning and stasis is death...
...fine one. All eight dance well by themselves, but they have not yet achieved the precision of ensemble that marks the best troupes. Eglevsky and Slavenska are both first-rank artists; but, in both of their duos, drawn from Tschaikovsky, they proved disappointing: Eglevsky had nothing to do except act as a prop for the ballerina...
...this meeting the editors of the Summer News will explain the workings of the paper, and will show those attending around the building. Attendance commits one to nothing (except a few swallows here and there) and all--experienced or no--are welcome...
...square dance will occur on Friday, August 1. Gaudreau will again be the caller, but with live music accompaniment. This time 50 cents plus a Summer School card (except for guests) will be required...
Says Adolf Berle: "Puerto Rico has independence in everything except economics, defense and foreign relations-and these three are international by hypothesis."* Moreover, the commonwealth concept is free to evolve, perhaps in the line of further shucking off of federal laws, or unlinking courts from the U.S. system. President Eisenhower long ago promised to recommend that Congress give Puerto Rico independence any time the islanders vote for it. Moscoso says Puerto Ricans sense their freedom because they "are in a room with the doors open...