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...Defense of Reading presents the unhappy paradox of a badly written book about the delights of good writing. A collection of essays by present and one-time section-men in Reuben Brower's Hum 6, it has in parts all the dedication to reading as (in Brower's phrase) "active amusement, a game demanding the highest alertness and the finest degree of sensibility" one remembers from Hum 6, but --alas-- all the section-man dullness which is also a part of one's recollection of the course...
...Music 1, English 160, Hum. 141d, and several other large courses meeting Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at 11 a.m. all hold their exams on June 4, the next to the last day of exam period...
With that, he turned sharply right on the far side of University Hall and seemed to hurtle himself towards Sever. "Hum," thought Biff Bundie, as he quickened his pace behind the Indian, "he's trying to shake me from his trail. Fat chance...
...reports that ness added to nouns, pronouns, verbs and phrases-a custom thought until now to be mostly whimsical, as in whyness or everydayness-has become popular among distinctly unjocose people. In Clock Without Hands, Novelist Carson McCullers repeatedly alludes to livingness-meaning, as Teacher Foote sees it, "the hum of hot blood, the buzz, the throb of passion," which is perhaps also "felt sappily by flowers and vegetables." Thingness, as used by Poet John Ciardi, "the sober Saul of modern letters," apparently connotes some ineffable quality of poetic words when uttered by a poet. When Novelist J. D. Salinger...
...three important roles are solid, the skeleton of Peace Decorum is not. Walter Moses' music is uneven: "Wander Lust," some of his "Ballet" and, of course, "Razzle Dazzle" are just fine, but scarcely memorable or even nice to hum. Alan Lutkus' lyrics are competent, but often inane, and they don't follow Carter Wilson's book too closely...