Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successful in the crisis but a failure at amusing yourself in the subway is wrong." This is both delightful and intelligent, but most of the embroidery of "Logic" is either pure dada, or epigram that does not bear directly on a central theme of criticism. Yet the sketch is in the general spirit of prose, and in a particular spirit that is suited to the American genius and the genius of the day. It does not take refuge in faint reproduction of past prose glories...
...chest in extolling them. In other respects the show would outrun the average revue many weeks, for the entire chorus was unique in intricacy and activity. The skits were funnier than the average, and provoked more laughs, and although they did not nearly realize all their possibilities--notably the sketch in the bedroom. Such acting as there was in the course of the evening lacked subtlety, which suited the audience perfectly...
...CRIMSON of December 22, 1896, "Lampy" merited the following: "The Christmas number of the Lampoon, which came out yesterday, is unusually entertaining and contains drawings rather above the average of college publications. The sketch on the cover, drawn by T. M. Hastings '98 is very effective and represents Lampy astride Pegasus treading over the Dragon...
Coach Mahan's duties as assistant coach of the football team prevented his taking charge of the fall baseball drill. Except for a brief talk on the first day of fall practice, he has made no appearance in his new capacity as Coach Slattery's successor. Tonight he will sketch the plans for the indoor work this winter and for the spring season. Business has detained Battery Coach Fred Mitchell in New York and last night it was expected that he would be unable to attend the meeting...
...spirits were merely indulging in a low order of practical joke. Such humor, however, is scarcely worthy of men who have attained a more or less fixed station in life, or out of it: and any such explanation must be regarded as a feeble excuse for the somewhat chagrined Sketch...