Word: moronia
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...CRIMSON attacked public initiations of the Hasty Pudding Institute in an editorial entitled "Sophomoric Pornography." "Never, not even in the cheapest of vaudeville houses has the public--the general public in and around Harvard Square and the University--been offended with such common antics, more suitable to Moronia than a supposedly intelligent community," it said, blasting the Club for an exhibition...
...Intellectuals, Easterners and British writers, many of whom have lived happily in its sunshine for decades, snarl at its lack of culture, its brashness, its frenzied architecture. Aldous Huxley called it the "city of Dreadful Joy [where] conversation is unknown." H. L. Mencken handed down a one-word verdict: "Moronia...
...difficult transition from boards to celluloid has left O'Neill's "Emperor Jones" undamaged. The script of the short drama is used without change, with only a little prefatory matter added as a sop to Moronia. Since the additions are in the style of the original tragedy, since O'Neill's play as it stood opened too directly in medias res, and since the emendations take advantage of the wider possibilities of the camera, the changes are an improvement on the legitimate play. Photography and direction, and excellent suporting cast and good music aid Paul Robeson's magnificent interpretation...
...material of ensuing chapters can be deduced from their titles: "God Help the South," "Dives into Quackery," "The Pedagogy of Sex," "Appendix from Moronia." In all of them, accurate as they may be, important as they may seem, one has the picture of steaming, sweating Author Mencken, his face red from beer and the light of destructive enthusiasm, beating out penny absurdities to the amazement of an audience composed almost entirely of what he refers to as "booboisie...
...several years of increasingly disagreeable spectacles, even the opportunity for that excuse has disappeared. Never, not even in the cheapest of cheap vaudeville houses, has the public--the general public in and around Harvard Square and the University public--been offended with such common antics, more suitable to Moronia than a supposedly intelligent community...
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