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...more pedestrian note, the Alosp brothers concentrate nearly a third of their book, The Reporter's Trade, on an attack on bureaucratic secrecy regulations and devote the rest of their space to smug discussion of how they got around these regulations. Their opening chapters on what it is like to be an aristocrat and a reporter, how Washington reporting has changed, and the mortal penalty a society pays for not facing its big decisions in the open are only occasionally either penetrating of powerful. The selected columns which make up the body of the volume are neither effective records...
...Pleasure of His Company. An engaging overage playboy, Cyril Ritchard, decides that his pert daughter and her pedestrian fiance do not qualify for a marriage of true minds, and he promptly supplies the impediments...
Nash attributed the loss of prospective science concentrators to "a perfectly pedestrian explanation." Freshmen lose interest in science when they discover that college courses are primarily concerned with "the gory details of quantitative calculations," he explained...
Denis D. Barber '60, has been arrested for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident yesterday afternoon in Boston. A detective who witnessed the accident claimed that Barber struck a pedestrian and then fled...
Other poetry in Identity includes work by Lowell Edmunds and Mason Harris. Both pieces are technically adequate, but somewhat pedestrian. An interesting and sober review of the recent Editor, by Aden Field, distinguished by its lavish use of such critical catch phrases as "human experience" rounds out the issue...