Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This does not seem to be in keeping with the spirit of individual initiative of which the University has always been proud. While the HSA, with its large financial resources pool, undoubtedly provides a great service for the man who wants to start a student enterprise but does not have the necessary funds, it should not be an organization which coerces students into joining big business...
...fortune have announced similar purpose, and with almost tedious results they have failed. However much the birth of a new publication may warm the collective heart of the International Typographers Union, a magazine needs to stand for something more concrete than benefaction to ill-used literati. The New Yorker seems to seek out urbanity and reminscence of childhood; The Atlantic at once flirts with the ghost of William Dean Howells and holds hands, perhaps behind her back, with a stable of socially-aware Harvard professors; and Time, we all know, recognizes its peculiar calling with a zest...
Having tackled the problem of themselves, the editors of The Editor tackle the problem of life, and while there is doubtless more room for debate on this issue because it is doubtless a larger problem than themselves, they seem to meet with little succes. First the editors say they recognize that our generation (Are we a generation until we've done something?) is, in this order, silent, apathetic, decadent and delinquent. Then: "Withdrawal is not, for us, a retrogression into apathy; rather it rises from a realization that the secular Utopia is a mirage and that in the complexity...
After the plot is finally straightened out, Producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., unable to resist hamming up his own road show, dashes onto the screen and swears the audience to secrecy. But by that time, even Director Michael (Around the World in 80 Days) Anderson does not seem to care one peseta's worth...
Miss Jackson carries off all this in a cool manner: the irony manner gets out of hand. If the novel, a short one by all odds, seems at times on the long side, this is because she is carefully shading her characters and needs space to do so. The book doesn't seem to have any compelling or original themes that have not popped up in high-class escape writing before; but as a tightly and incisively constructed piece, worthy of a goodly bit of concentration, it rates very well indeed...