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...means least, I want to congratulate you on the dramatic irony of veiling your courageous stand under the slogans of practicality and equality, catchwords which have long been used by the materialists who advocate complete destruction of our last mode for individual expression. I.B. SKRALLER, President, Makeshift Pen Company...
...readers, and how much more time for writers. We've noted how successfully the system works at other institutions. We've answered objections, pointing out that it is really fairer to let each student choose his preferred way to write an exam than it is to penalize slow pen-pushers by prescribing blue books and ink only. We've even written notes to graders, suggesting that they might form an interested pressure group...
Whether characters who are full-fashioned in pen and ink can ever do as well in flesh and blood may well be doubted. But it is less the characters than the characteristics of comic-strip life that make for trouble on Broadway. Plainly the chopped-up repetitions, the churning status quo that go down fine a spoonful a day in a newspaper could sadly pall as an evening-long drink on the stage. On the stage, accordingly, Li'l Abner has been swamped with plot, which not only palls but plods. Also, by never letting anyone relax, the plot...
...Laboratories, New York City, and later to M.I.T., where he concentrated on practical gadgets. The one demonstrated last week, the only one to be completed before Dr. Witcher's death last month, is called an Audible Vision Probe. It is about as big as a short, fattish fountain pen, and a thin wire leads from it to an earphone. At one end of the probe is a small lens, and inside is a photocell that is sensitive to differences of light and shade...
...Harding insists that everything Bunyan wrote is grist for the analyst, and especially his slips of the pen. since they are not accidents, but the certain results of subconscious desires. Example: Bunyan wrote of the "straight and narrow" path (instead of the Biblical spelling, strait). This means, says Analyst Harding, that Bunyan was subconsciously rebellious against the strait and narrow path of Puritanism, perhaps even the very practice of Christianity itself...