Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throws himself into one of his specialties-Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes or Long Tall Sally-his throat seems full of desperate aspirates ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi luh-huh-huh-huv yew-hew") or hiccuping glottis strokes, and his diction is poor. But his movements suggest, in a word...
...wish to suggest that we have become laconic since its lamentable disappearance early Saturday morning for we are steadfast in our belief that we are the oldest college comics in America. But it has, you see, taken just a bit of the edge off our care-free spirits...
...power of the nightmare. The spectator is locked in the sinister bunker like Germany in its obsession, and the end is less an exit than a cure. Actor Skoda, for all the impacted passion of his playing, never really gets the number of the beast, but he manages to suggest both paranoia and genius, and he expounds the lesson of Nazi Germany as shockingly sometimes as if he had borne the head of the dictator through the theater on a pole...
...most successful pieces in the issue are the two reviews. Apparently undergraduates in general and The Advocate in particular find criticism a simpler task than creation. This is not, however, to suggest that criticism should consume more space, but rather, that their editors should apply their critical standards to the material they publish. There is no shortage of undergraduate prose technicians, and many of them are writing for The Advocate. If the editors can convince these craftsmen that their work should say something, that it is not absolutely essential to be so divorced from the subject as not to give...
...undergraduate knows, a sociologist is a man who is daily astonished by the commonplace. Usually, this professional sense of wonder finds its outlet in recording masses of data and using them to suggest trends, shifts in manners and mores, and the like. Occasionally one comes along who, like Tho stein Veblen (The Theory of the Leisure Class), gives society a therapeutic, though not necessarily accurate, boot in the pants. But a few of them suffer from a rare though virulent occupational disease. They become hectoring critics of their fellow men. They scold. They even grit their teeth...