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...Elivera Doud's home at 750 Lafayette Street, Denver, is the kind of solidly comfortable, nondescript dwelling in which millions of middle-aged Americans spent their childhood. Built of the grey-brown brick favored by Denver architects 40 years ago, it sits right up against its neighbors and is separated from the street only by a short, steep terrace and a patch of fine green lawn. Its wide porch is equipped with a glider and wicker chairs; red geraniums grow in low flower boxes on the railings. Last week, in this unremarkable survival of the parlor era, 75-year...
...photographs, too, are disappointing. Though some are very dramatic, most of them are nondescript. What's worse, there are too few line-ups, too few faces, and what ones were printed are too often labeled with some cute phrase rather than names. It is of course impossible to run firing squads of such vast groups as PBH, but surely it is not too much to expect a picture of the whole football team, of the Advocate staff, or of the Harvard Young Democrats...
When Thompson died at 48 (in 1907, of tuberculosis), his sole belongings were "a few old pipes and old pens lying in a tin lid" and a nondescript collection of clippings from the Daily Mail (e.g., "Mikado Airs on Japanese Warship-Amusing Scenes"; "The Milk Peril, What Hinders Reform"). But by then, thanks in good part to Editor Meynell (who lived on until 1948), he stood second only to William Butler Yeats as the foremost lyricist...
...Lampoon's stories are at best nondescript. They are all carefully and elaborately built around a single, and not particularly amusing, gimmick. They contain too few bits of inspired phrasing or deft writing, and they die slowly of their own weight. On the brighter side of the 'Poon's prose efforts are Satires on the Boston newspapers and the Saturday Evening Post. They are short and lightly written...
...story of almost suicidal ROK bravery, of heavy enemy losses, and of heavy ROK losses. The Reds were still fighting the war of attrition, apparently profitable to them, that began nine weeks ago on White Horse Hill, then switched to Triangle Hill and Sniper Ridge, then to the two nondescript brown lumps called Little and Big Nori...