Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed through the experience of an examination in the New Lecture Hall cannot fail to get a quiver or two out of the cartoon The Retreat from Moscow. To most readers of the Lampoon this will be the appeal to strike him most strongly. A modest Proposal after the pattern of Swift is very amusing. It is enlivened with sketches portraying the dismal fate of the Harvard Undergraduate if the Proposal is ever taken seriously. A drawing on page 20 reveals some of the difficulties involved in the production of the Decameron. The whole Boccacio household is pressed into service...
Donald Fay Robinson, young Harvard poet, presents a short collection of extravagant naivetes with, now and then, a youthful trumpet ful of sophistication. The book contains about forty poems dating from 1914 and the pre-college days of the poet. Among them can be seen the fragile pattern of a young man's philosophy...
...another, a cavalier Faust, the creation of Mephistopheles' evil genius, a romantic with a voice fittingly curving and lush. Mephistopheles through it all was the Mr. Hyde to Faust's Dr. Jekyll. He was the embodiment of all the negative forces of life, cut by the same pattern as Faust, only his evil self...
...Another defect is that our education has too often meant conformity to an accepted pattern rather than release of energy in construction...
...York Graphic in its best moments is perhaps more amusing than Mr. Enwright's contribution to journalism. But after all there is only one Bernarr McFadden and those who pattern their wares on his must be content with minor laurels. The Telegram certainly will have its public, for even a constant perusal of the Advertiser occasionally fails to appease the public's taste for the elemental, the passionate primitive. Mr. Enwright is to be complimented on the success with which he has composed and executed his sheet without falling back on the usual resources of the journalist, news...