Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winthrop-Comstock Lion Rampant was named by The Nation last spring as one of the ten best college magazines in the country, but the current issue of this little magazine does not quite live up to the accolade. It does not, in fact, even live up to its own pretensions. The Lion Rampant contains a depressingly great quantity of writing by people who cannot write and, worse yet, bad writing by usually good writers...
...most notable member of this latter category is Robert Dawson '64. Three of Dawson's poems appear in the magazine; they must have been retrieved from his waste basket by some copy hungry Lion Rampant editor. The poet seems to lack any rudimentary "feel" for the music of poetry, and much of his imagery is contrived and almost meaningless. For example...
Other contributions to the Lion Rampant outdo the mediocrity of Dawson and Littlejohn. Cecile Williamson's "Atlanta" is the most feeble imitation of literature in the magazine. Skirmante Makaitis translated two folk tales from the Lithuanian (apparently into English). One of them, "Stolen Bread," begins...
Fortunately, the writing of Carter Wilson '63 and Max Byrd '64, rescues the Lion Rampant from total mediocrity...
...best piece of writing which appears in the Lion Rampant is Carter Wilson's "Mrs. Sessions Attends Church." The story is a chapter from a novel on which Wilson is working, but it can stand by itself. Wilson's use of language is simply marvelous. He can compress a whole range of ideas into a single line. He has an acute eye for small details, but--unlike Mr. Littlejohn--also possesses artistic ability to make the detail an integral part of his characterization and plot development. He portrays his main character and the movement of her thoughts with remarkable perception...