Word: mood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expression of a mood" is Lampy's own half-apologetic explanation of how he came to devote his attention, rather actively, to the Harvard School of Business Administration. The S. B. A. got on Lampy's nerves, as it has on those of some older Harvard men. A "Business School Number" is the result, and the college community is the gainer by the neatest chaffing we have had for an academic generation...
Unlike this sketch, the three prose narratives are not prose in conception, excellent as is the detailed style in each. "The Iron String" by Charles Allen Smart condenses the material of a novel into reminiscence, as introduction to a pretty turn of direction in mood that might have been the perfect idea of a lyric. The treatment of material indicates a failure to see the prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful...
...steel industry, in sharp contrast to its mood of last summer, now cheerfully faces the future. Prices of bars, shapes, plates and wire products have advanced under broadening buying, while the Steel Corporation has raised its prices on black sheets $2 a ton, and on galvanized and automobile sheets...
...distinctly an achievement. There are signs of an earnest effort to give the rest of the issue both text and pictures, the same seasonal flavor, but with an indifferent result which suggests that there may be some foundation for the persistent reports that nobody is getting into the proper mood this December...
Pennsylvania has another hard battle on its hands with Penn State, but its great defense ought to be equal to the task. Penn is undefeated and is in no mood to have its record marred by a defeat from the Nittany Lions...