Word: spanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Interestingly enough, Porter's "Kathy's Date," like his November "The Devil Will Spank" and "Grandfather," ends in a cemetery. Lest anyone suspect a graveyard school at South Street, Michael Hancher explains in a pompous and unnecessary editorial on "Advocate Policy" that there is no Advocate policy, that it prints anything that "achieves," and that the oversupply of cometeries and childhood recollections is purely accidental. "If the Advocate is not always a constant joy to read from cover to cover," he apologizes, "it is because writers and editors learn from mistakes." This issue should provide more than a modicum...
...Porter's acceptable story (he contributes two) he calls "The Devil Will Spank" which despite a lurid obsession with the imperfections in children's teeth and hair has its charming moments. I wish he would not pause so long to build up great tortuous heaps of detail before allowing his children to move; the story emerges as a photograph of huge, static, concrete set-pieces...