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...written a lucid critique of Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers in the current issue, is obviously a brilliant reviewer. Norman Mailer who reviews Mary McCarthy's The Group on the front page of the same issue is, on the other hand, a useless and horrid contributor...
John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, reacted with "pure, horrid gloom" to the prospect of a new access road at the corner of the building. "I can see why they'd want it," Finley conceded; "all this pressure from Detroit and the ghastly Chevrolets they keep turning out. But it would be horrible. It would be the final victory of inhumanity...
Swart, frog-faced Pierre Laval had the look of a man born to play a horrid role. And in the popular Gallic fairy tale that still passes for the history of France during World War II, he has always made an ideal ogre-a sinister greasy eminence who bamboozled the National Assembly into capitulating in 1940 and dragged Marianne in the muck by collaborating with Germany. When gallant Charles de Gaulle returned to slay this monster and (with some small American help) deliver France from thralldom, his countrymen threw Laval into a traitor's grave, hoping that five years...
...bacteria from soil and sewage plants. The bugs went for the stuff like kids for peanut-butter sandwiches, gobbling most of it in a few days. Once their new detergent gets drained out of washing machines, say the ESSO men, it will not last long enough to make one horrid bubble...
...after making the list, he blows up with the plane carrying the vicar's valise. Detective George C. Scott, in a mustache that makes him rather resemble Keenan Wynn, labors manfully, and in the end tracks down the despicable arranger of the accidents and even ferrets out his horrid motive...