Word: phantasmagoria
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...phantasmagoria in the system of University Officials seems to be a complete jam of cars all the way from the barrier to the circle in front of Eliot House. That did not happen last year. It does not happen in the less spacious parking streets of Cambridge. If the Apted men can enforce the present ban, certainly with the help of a few marking lines on the pavement, they could cannot ensure the ban, which is the more likely story, they might as well save themselves their much-demanded time and effort...
...Tiffany Thayer were a great deal better writer, this is the kind of book he might write. Phantasmagoria laid in a wilder California than mortal eye has seen. The Flutter of an Eyelid promises more than it performs, but puts on a garishly entertaining show. Says Author Brinig, through one of his characters: "It occurs to me that a writer ought to have both vegetables and flowers in his books. He ought to have everything in his books. The old idea of being one thing at a time, a romanticist or a realist, hardly fits in with the times...
...Phantasmagoria. The fantastic pyrotechnics of colored ink and nightmare layouts with which Hearst, ever demure in appearance, staggered public attention in the next few years are still faintly reflected today in his American Weekly (circulation: 6,000,000). Snorting brontosauri with swarms of pterodactyls perched on their backs go gallivanting from the primordial slime across the toes of fabulous princesses, heiresses and actresses who, swooning in ermine negligees with hot love-letters stacked around them, "confess all" under the shadow of Science's latest mechanical star-splitter, a device for laying the centuries end to end-so that they...
...into the Stevens Hotel ballroom, jostled about among friends in lobbies, listened to many a long speech. Sad-eyed Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham, Ala., A. B. A. president, welcomed delegates with assurances that constitutional liberty was still safe in the land, that "visions of social strife are but phantasmagoria of morbid brains...
...requirements are not at all excessive: 1000 words a week and one long theme of 2000 words every month, on any subject whatsoever, from light phantasmagoria to Socratic dialogue. There is no final examination nor is it necessary to attend the lectures to pass with an honor grade...