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Protests against the new Glee Club arose for the last time around 1926 when it refused to sing in the annual intercollegiate Glee Club contest because it considered the contest's prize song, which all competitors had to sing, "inferior music" and "sentimental mush...
...erudite science of solid-state physics can predict from theory how strong a metallic crystal should be if all its atoms were arranged in a perfect, regular pattern. The figure is usually so high that the real metal seems like mush by comparison. Crystals formed in ordinary ways, e.g., by cooling from a liquid, are full of imperfections and irregularities that reduce their strength. Crystals of pure iron, for instance, should, in theory, be a hundred times stronger than they actually...
...prose, beautiful and simple though it is, appear the unmistakable marks of a first novel. The similes are sometimes strained; the spring ground smells like "the healthy, passionate sweat of a country waitress." Occasionally his attempt for poetry-in-prose sounds sing song, "John eat your mush . . . Eat your breakfast and hush...
...evangelical message, it seems strangely more Calvinistic than Anglican (man find God through himself without mention of the church and with a predestined role). And these moralistic overtones make the characters into theological robots rather than into the crisp, little chessmen of The Cocktail Party. Mush as I enjoy the intellectual exercise The Confidential Clerk imposes, I had the feeling, when it was all over that the equations didn't balance, not even when you accept the particular set of coordinates in which Eliot chooses to devote his life...
...Mush bustle and improbable commotion completely fill the screen, and the ordered nonsense is a monument to the direction of Howard Hawks. He has filmed the hectic action without losing either reasonable pace or timing, and the result is a picture that does with clever dialogue what Olsen and Johnson do with pandemonium and underdone custard pies. The only possible improvement would be a more thoughtful spacing of laughs. One can easily miss several excellent boffs while recovering from ones coming just before. The answer is to sit through two shows...