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...considerable practice; but, not for any argument's sake, am I willing to grant that Mr. Jencks knows everything. His article is neither review nor criticism but self-exhibition,--a long-winded parade of half-baked psychiatry and sociology. He piles up platitude upon platitude like Pelion upon Ossa--for instance, "all intellectual activity is a reaction to some stimulus" (high school learning); there are the three things upon which--as he tells us--Freud's success is based (why three rather than thirty?) and so on. Where are the CRIMSON'S standards when it can publish such pretentious blown...
Some make believe they are Napoleon, and some Satan. Other favorite characters are Robespierre, Perseus and Audromeda, and Pelion and Ossa. Sometimes men dress up as women and vice versa. Mardi Gras historians are still chuckling over the time a man won first prize for the "Most beautifully dressed lady...
Local gunsters, possessing only inferior bore .22 calibre rifles were inclined to view the invitation of the Yale potshotters with alarm. "It's bad enough in the open trolleys down there with the pigeons flying around." said one, "but lead pellets might be piling Pelion on Ossa...
...dangerous business to pile Pelion on Ossa in the field of critical praise, but it is a risk which must be taken in any appraisal of the Veterans Theater Workshop's production of "Saint Joan." Last night's performance involved some of the finest acting and most superb staging over seen on the Sanders stage, and very probably anywhere in the vicinity of Harvard Square. Faced with enormous problems at every turn of one of Shaw's most ambitious scripts, the company created a masterpiece which carried the audience away and must have astounded even its most ardent backers...
Till the Clouds Roll By (M-G-M), a glamorized biography of the late Jerome Kern, piles Ossa on Pelion, Mt. Everest on top of that, and garnishes with a couple of dozen minor ranges. It is not exactly strong on story. The only clouds in Composer Kern's life-Broadway's onetime preference for English tunes, and Kern's avuncular concern over his arranger's problem daughter-seem to have been no bigger than a man's hand, and just about as unusual. But for those who like popular music and attractive entertainers...