Word: grandpas
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...which grandpa wore when he was in college .... coat and pants (not trousers) which do not match.... all pockets bulging.... no vest.... striped tie with one half as like as not over a shoulder.... deceased crease in buckle...
...them. It is less expensive to cater to ancestor-worship in whatever its form than to be creative. It is also safer. If you brush your teeth criss-cross instead of up and down because you like it better, you should go to Yale. If you do so because grandpa did, better go to Harvard...
...glibly laid open the flaws in school, college and camp life. It would indeed have been a shame had we not been treated to a few more of these depictions, and so they are within the covers of the present little volume. "A Good Old-Fashioned Christmas" at Grandpa's in East Russet, Vermont, is quite up to expectations and paves the way for the still better selections...
Only, get your red pencil after some words that are ready to be molted from your rather exceptional vocabulary. Grandpa "Potent" and a few of his confreres ought to get well-deserved old age pensions...
...editors and contributors- there was no chief among Editors Egmont Arens, Joseph Freeman, Hugo Gellert, Michael Gold, James Rorty and John Sloan-included some of the mainstays of the older magazines, especially artists: the powerful Gellert, convulsive William Gropper, sly Art Young with his tongue in his foxy-grandpa cheek. But for the most part they were new hands-economic malcontents and idealists recruited from the younger generation. There were names like Klein, Lozowick, Soglow and Dehn signed to some of the pictures. A young lady called Wanda Gag contributed a startling portrait of "The Tired...