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...Advocate, however, leads strongly. In "The Education of Jem" by Peter Pitts, the author characterizes Jem, a somewhat brutish farmer, unable to tolerate the crying of his infant son. While Jem is caressing the child's head in a fatherly fashion, the baby begins to wail and what was gentle fondling becomes a severe enough rubbing to kill the infant. Pitts has the ability to convert the discontinuous ramblings of a man's thought into readable and convincing prose. His first paragraph on the hypnotic effect of a gate scraping back and forth along the ground and, later, the section...
...generation of the '205 was devoutly iconoclastic. It put on (in the words of T. S. Eliot) "the black cap of jem'en joutisme"-of I-don't-give-a-damn-ism. It discovered with a mixture of horror and delight that it was living in a brand-new age, the 20th Century, and it decided to burn all the old cultural furniture. This huge fire, while it caused incalculable damage, cast a sharp, new light across U.S. civilization-and encouraged the younger generation of that day to do a whooping war dance around it. Gertrude Stein...
...Died. Jem Smith. 68, oldtime bare-knuckle prizefighter who was twice heavyweight champion of England; at Acton. London suburb. He once fought Jake Kilrain for 106 rounds, for a $10,000 purse and the heavyweight championship of the world, to a draw...
...Died. Jem Driscoll, 44, famed boxer, onetime British featherweight champion; in Cardiff, Wales, of tuberculosis of the lungs following pleurisy and pneumonia...
...casts of the plays follow: "THE HEART OF THE IRISHMAN." Con Cregan, E. A. Bemis '11 Peter M'Cabe, J. R. Snyder 3L. Barney M'Cabe, his younger brother, R. F. Duncan '12 "Billy" Scanlan, the schoolmaster, C. W. Putnam '11 Teague O'Regan, R. C. Benchley '12 Jem Shanahan, W. W. Hackman '09 time Kilally, J. M. Longyear '10 "THE HORSE THIEVES." Al Bartlett, a sheriff, J. C. Savery '11 Mrs. Bartlett, Miss Charlotte Adams Laura Bartlett, Miss Anna Bourke Burt Haskell, P. Snedeker '11 Olie Morrill, J. C. Nicholson Sp. Reverend Clinch R. C. Benchley '12 "DEATH...