Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity baseball team ran into an extremely fine pitcher at Brown yesterday afternoon and came off on the short end of a 6-0 score. Some three hundred loyal sons-of-Bruin bared their chests to the sun and cheered (and jeered) lustily, as the home team moved one step closer to winning the Eastern League championship...
This time we are graced with a small monthly magazine, Gadfly, which proudly bills itself as "a magazine of criticism and controversy." Much in the manner of St. George and the Dragon, the editors of Gadfly hope, with five short essays and several "artsy" commentaries, to stimulate the sleeping masses, the great lithesome Blob which is our community...
...should be asking himself: "Why aren't I 'concerned'? Why can't I crash through frontiers? How is it I'm not chosen as a volunteer for space missions? Why can't I be an anarchist, blowing up airplanes, factories, and like that, and asserting my individualism?" In short, one must "come to grips" with "basic existence" and master reality through the Ideal. "Why can't I commit myself and become a non-conformist?" still remains the fundamental question of our sham existence...
...extended praise of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, and Paul Riesman's essay on "mentally fat professors," the quality of the writing in the first issue of Gadfly is surpassed only by a mediocre Gen. Ed. essay. Also included in this issue is a short piece in French, which, after reading, I leave for the more esoteric to interpret, and an enigmatic scrawl on art and Ezra Pound written for a very special "in-group" to discuss over their Turkish tea at the Cafe Mozart...
Lawrence wrote Lady Chatterley three times. By the time he was satisfied, the novel contained enough explicit love scenes and enough short Anglo-Saxon words to sate the appetite of the keenest pornographer. But is it pornography? The answer of literary people is no. Lawrence, a fretful neurotic always at war within himself, was a serious writer. But there is another question: Is Lady Chatterley dull and tiresome? This time the answer must...