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Next day the new bishop was back in his gutter...
...Canadian-born publisher. The onetime bottle-washer came out with a long personal editorial upholding among other things the aristocratic principle ("an aristocracy of political heritage under the influence of a democratic vote"). But even Publisher Max had "no interest in rescuing Poland and Czecho-Slovakia from the gutter," was for the war only because the Empire...
...flower-&-lily school he dramatized, the arch-esthete contemporaries he cultivated and admired-Painter Jimmie Whistler, who hammered home the theory that art has no morals and trained Wilde in the most cynical wit of the century; Ernest Dowson, hashish-smoking, tuberculous poet who died young in the gutter after writing Cynara, a poetic rosary for disillusioned young men; Artist Aubrey Beardsley, spidery, sardonic, tuberculous genius, called "the most monstrous of orchids" by Wilde; French Novelist Huysmans, who carried decadent experiments in subtle sensations as far as they have ever gone; Theophile Gautier, "Holy ghost of the exotic-aesthetic, satanic...
...foregoing statements were not spoken from the gutter. Author Smith is a writer and amateur chemist; Helwig is a physician who has opened about 5,000 corpses: their cold-sober documentation runs to 47 pages of 100-proof bibliography. Simple laboratory curiosity prompted their research...
Princeton freshmen donned their black dinks (skullcaps) and black ties, stepped into the gutter to let upperclassmen pass, went to the President's Reception to dance with 250 debutantes. University of Pennsylvania's freshmen dined together for the-first time in a new commons, afterwards-paraded to Benjamin Franklin's statue in front of Weightman Hall, then to a rally on Franklin Field. At Harvard the big news was that Cambridge University's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards (The Meaning of Meaning) would set sail from England this week to be a visiting lecturer...