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...complaint that the Advocate prints unsufficient (sic) fiction reflecting "college life," one can only reply that the Advocate has never set itself up as a literary version of the Crimson, that if the contributors choose to occupy themselves with what Mr. Freedman so quaintly described as "Freud and frou-frou," it is in itself a reflection of a prevalent spirit, and that any significant change in the contents of the magazine will come not through peevish, unsubstantiated complaints via the daily press, but rather through attention to the elementary principals of literary form. Marvin Barrett '42, President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/27/1941 | See Source »

There have been, I am happy to admit occasional "representative" articles published in the Advocate, but on the whole there has been much too much Freud and frou-frou. It may be argued in rebuttal that the Advocate would print writing of more immediate truth and importance if such writing were forthcoming. But it is for the Advocate to encourage openly such material. This it has not done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...sketched caricature of the lesser gods at the Office. The centre piece is frowsy. The other drawings are not remarkable. To repeat a criticism made last year, I would advise the Lampoon artists to study the technique of the black and white work in such French comic papers as "Frou-Frou" and "Le Rire...

Author: By B. A. G. fuller., | Title: Review of Yale Game Lampoon | 11/21/1908 | See Source »

MISS Nethersole's repertory at the Museum this week is arranged as follows: Tonight, "The Transgressor;" Wednesday matinee, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, "Camille;" Wednesday evening, "Frou-Frou;" Saturday matinee, "Romeo and Juliet." "The Transgressor," by A. W. Gattie, is based upon incidents similar to those used by Charlotte Bronte in "Jane Eyre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 4/2/1895 | See Source »

HOLLIS ST. THEATRE. Modjeska in "Frou-Frou...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 1/18/1887 | See Source »

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