Word: formlessness
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Like newborn colts, just experiencing first impressions, the contributors to the first Freshman Review wobble through their first fearless but awkward steps. As Archibald MacLeish says in his extremely frank foreword, "There is nowhere . . . the signature of incontestable talent." The stories are in many places rough and virtually formless, yet they are, at least, frank and unhesitantly autobiographical...
...graduation dress for a class of Boston nurses. Soon after that, White Swan's President Leo M. Cooper picked up a 300-dozen order for similar uniforms from a Chicago department store. That opened his eyes. By talking to nurses, Cooper learned that they were tired of staid, formless garments. Says Cooper: "The nurse is a woman first and a nurse after." White Swan doubled, then tripled its first line of four uniform styles; orders poured in so fast that by 1927 the company decided to drop its housedress line (which grossed $1,000,000 yearly), concentrate on uniforms...
Last week, in Washington, two key counts in a Government perjury indictment against Owen Lattimore, onetime State Department adviser on Far East policy, were thrown out of court by U.S. District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl. The court ruled that the charges were "formless and obscure," and therefore denied the defendant protections guaranteed him in the Constitution and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The Justice Department has three alternatives: to appeal (although an appeal failed the last time a similar decision was handed down by Judge Youngdahl); to go to trial with the remaining counts on the original indictment...
...life became an unending struggle to keep out of debtors' prison. To meet his creditors' and dealers' demands, he stepped up his potboiling output to one and two paintings a day, filled his canvases with short cuts (masses of foliage and shadows, figures swathed in formless cloaks...
...excess of talent may sometimes be the curse of an undergraduate literary magazine. Often single pieces are noteworthy, but the magazine as a whole is formless and disjointed. This is because the editors have picked the best work with no thought for continuity or symmetry. Likewise, individual pieces may suffer from a great, unrestrained surge of creative talent...