Word: sanctum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quietly the Jester fell out of the Sanctum, as he heard a piercing shriek and a loud ringing noise from the next room...
...contented hum of the refrigerator that posed in the blackness, two feet in front of him. His hand brushed the string. He grasped it and pulled; then painlessly extracted another beer from the refrigerator, pulled the string again and returned to the large, black leather couch in the sanctum. The night was hot and quiet and the beer cold and satisfying. A blue magnesium light on Plympton Street flickered white, then changed back to blue with a litle click. Someone's phonograph was playing from a room in Adams House. Suddenly, completely without warning, the fragile atmosphere shattered into...
Fame, beer, and the exciting career of journalism will knock at the door of every '45 man next Monday night, when the ivy-covered sanctum on Plympton Street opens its doors for its 210th competition and open house...
...Sanctum dances and blowouts will be open to all who make the Board...
...garde" literature. Eric Larrabee's excellent review of Robert Frost's new book stresses the fact that we must now turn away from the post-war despair literature of the last twenty years. This May issue is an excellent indication that the swing is taking place in the Advocate Sanctum, at least among the short story writers, who may not be dealing with current war themes, but have departed from the haunted degeneracy of the past few years...