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...have traveled since Sinclair Lewis' first works: between Main Street and Mainstream there is the difference between an indictment for murder and the studying of a will. Where the plain American appeared to Mencken and Lewis-and to Author Basso in his early works-as a power well-nigh malignant in his complacency, John Applegate now emerges as the first guardian of the virtues that should be preserved. In Mainstream Author Basso goes farther than anyone: the plain American is also an intellectual whose mind is charged with the lessons, half-forgotten or neglected, from the great works...
...undergraduates, but many will be high-school graduates intended by the Army for a bit more learning before they are assigned to officers' training schools or advanced technological studies. Similar batches of 500 privates will be sent to some 300 other depopulated colleges, leaving 1,400 unfavored colleges nigh deserted and nigh bankrupt-unless the Government rescues them with new training programs...
...Blue Bulldog and he's been biting at Johnnie Harvard's heels for nigh onto 60 years now, but there won't be a trace of senility in the Eli hound's growl when he rushes onto his home greensward to grapple with the Crimson this Saturday in the sixty-first clash of the ivied classic, which started in the same year that the "new dining-club at Memorial Hall" served its first lamb and mint jelly...
...visit to the Plymouth sometime in the next few weeks can be justified on the grounds both of entertainment and of education, for "Angel Street" is a well-nigh perfect example of what a cracker-jack cast can do to rescue mediocre melodrama from becoming ridiculous. The play itself is just another mystery, complete with eerily fading gas-lights, a sex-hungry housemaid, and brooches with secret compartments. If read, it would be more an exercise in credulity than an experience in literature...
Since total obliteration is well-nigh impossible, accepted jamming practice is to do the next best thing: make such exasperating, excruciating noises that listeners turn to another station rather than be driven nuts. One favorite Axis jamming signal is a series of musical tones repeated interminably, as if a mad vibraphonist were banging away rapidly with one mallet. Another sounds like a collection of piercingly shrill peanut whistles...