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...Advocate were but an echo, only an echo of the wealth of talent it has to draw from. Only an echo of scatology and weepy sentiment, of hours spent in thinking obscene thoughts and insipid stories. Advocate Short Story Contest. Pointless obscenity...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: The Advocate | 6/4/1954 | See Source »

...warped and twisted. Not talent but words fitted into disgusting thoughts, and then moulded into repelling images. First Prize. "Armed with the morning paper rolled in his pocket, he heads for the purchasing of smoke, the disguiser of perplexity and the medium of delight." And after jointless words; again pointless obscenities. A true picture filtered on a canvas through a sewer...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: The Advocate | 6/4/1954 | See Source »

...sacrifice at Dienbienphu may turn out to be quite pointless. Whether it does or not depends upon leaders in Paris, London, Washington-and upon the free world's people, many of whom are still addicted to palatable, poisonous substitutes for the will to victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Will to Victory | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Dean Gitter, with un-sparkling competence, did some blustering as the Yugoslav colonel. But his main role was that of director. He did a good job, excepting only the spots in which he unfortunately choose to accentuate the play's pointless violence. Certainly the pace did not slacken at any point under Mr. Gitter's hand. For only brief moments, during which Mr. Gregory and Mr. Aaron decided that communism is basically evil, did boredom creep onto the stage...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: In The Lion's Mouth | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...Society's organizers last September planned a program including psychological demonstrations, movies, and lectures. They called an organizational meeting for October 28, but only eight members appeared, and, according to yesterday's statement, "it became obvious that further attempts at organization would be pointless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defunct Psychology Club to Make New Attempt to Organize in May | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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