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...false view of the community. It is not a magazine with a crusade. And it is not any of the other Quarterlies, because they are all pseudo-academic and dull. Audience's aims never become more positive than this, and we must infer them--its aims are to be psuedo-unacademic and, above all, undull. In attempting to avoid dullness the editors of Audience have collected a strange assortment of contributors including I. A. Richards and names normally associated with the Advocate. The impression on glancing at the table of contents is one of a literary Cat'n Racquet...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Audience | 5/28/1957 | See Source »

...becomes head of one committee or another and immediately sets out to rival and defeat the corresponding Harvard committee. She becomes terribly arty, terribly intellectual, terribly unconventional; but is neither as impressive nor as shocking as she would like. In her falseness, she deserves being categorized as a "typical psuedo-intellectual Radcliffe girl...

Author: By Muriel MICHALOVER Radcliffe, | Title: Cliffe Dwellers View Co-ed Policy | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

This is not the hour to avoid real issues. If the psuedo-crusaders are going to take their task seriously they will have to attack inflation, and not merely defend themselves against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beginning at the Bottom | 4/16/1943 | See Source »

...story of "Suspicion" concerns the psychological progression from love to fear of Joan Fontaine for her husband, Cary Grant. Grant, a handsome, witty, but rather poor social parasite, meets Miss Fontaine, of a psuedo-Clivedon Set, and they marry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 2/10/1943 | See Source »

...only are there fewer psuedo-sick midyear dodgers this year, but Harvard is generally healthier than at any time since 1935, according to Dr. Arlie V. Bock, Oliver Professor of Hygiene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Less Exam Dodging Tried By Healthier Harvard Men | 1/21/1942 | See Source »

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