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...issued daily, and a congress elected to discuss just what the Harvard Chapter of the Liberty League was going to do. This last might prove the only obstacle to a movement which should, by rights, sweep across the country like "The Music Goes 'Round," or the recent yo-yo fad; but just as lack of leaders cannot be allowed to deflect the stream, lack of a plan should be lightly brushed away until officers were elected and salaries discussed to the satisfaction...
While the activities of Lawrence are the principal focus of the volume. Edmonds has deliberately tern aside the veils of romance which have made his subject an almost legendary character by fitting them into the whole pattern of contemporary events. But this is not a part of the general fad of debunking history for in his true surroundings and with an understanding of his natural abilities and human faults, we cannot fall to appreciate more fully the work of this soldier who was also a mechanical genius and brilliant archaeologist...
...lawful for any to weare long haire, Locks or foretopps, nor . . . to use Curling, Crisping, parting or powdering their haire." It seems that the adoption of flowing coiffures by Harvard scholars had demoralized the citizenry to such an extent that even preachers in the local pulpits were affecting the fad, "to the great greife and offense of many godly hearts in the country...
...listen to the spoutings of W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, might fall asleep or get angry, but they would not understand more than a line or so in a dozen. Many a present-day poet along with many a poetaster and poeticule, follows the modern fad of writing a subjective Sanskrit all his own. Ponderers of such puzzle-poetry as Kenneth Patchen's no longer hope to get more than an impression of the sense; they do not so much read as search for clues. But even nervous readers will find enough of those to lead...
...answer is Yes! Indeed she does notice! She never fails to remark unkempt finger-nails, baggy trousers, or discords in color combinations. She is just as critical of the college man's shortcomings as he is of her periodical flights into the nightmares of fad-land...