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Interchangeable Pronouns. After the hail of postwar novels with homosexual themes (The Fall of Valor, Other Voices, Other Rooms, The City and the Pillar), most U.S. readers will hardly need New Directions' radar to detect the trend; but with sophomoric emphasis N.D. XI detects it anyhow in half a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Directions | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

The manly art of modified murder, as the late ringsider W. O. McGeehan called it, has supplied Budd Schulberg, 33, with a subject even seamier than the gaudy and greedy Hollywood of his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? In The Harder They Fall, professional prize fighting is presented as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fight Racket | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

This studiedly angry study in moral philosophy is charged with the same sophomoric ferocity as his best-selling Generation of Vipers was. But this time Wylie has some leaflets to scatter as well.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whiff into the Midnight | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Savage and Sophomoric. No one knows exactly how Henry Morgan got that way. "I was born at an early age," says he, "of mixed parents-male & female." That was 31 years ago. Some time after becoming a radio page boy, he changed his name from Henry Lerner von Ost to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Satirist | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Under these circumstances, and with a set of questions and expected answers that Professor Merk termed "sophomoric poppycock," the only possible outcome was that each student exercised his sense of humor to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the sense of humor.

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: 'Times' American History Survey A Farce | 4/7/1943 | See Source »

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