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...poet trying to tell you something? Or is he just muttering to himself? On the muddy banks between the clear running stream of communication and the swamp of self-expression squats a swarm of modern poets, patting mud-pies into shape for the admiration of themselves and their playmates. The much larger crowd of regular guys in the swimming hole jeer at these patty-cakers as sissies, but stand a little in awe of them too, seeing how cleverly they mold their incomprehensible mud images...
...church and outlawed by the state. In reply, he declared: ". . . As they excommunicated me for the sacrilege of heresy, so I excommunicate them in the name of the sacred truth of God. Christ will judge whose excommunication will stand." He also said: "Why do we not . . . assault . . . the whole swarm of the Roman Sodom . . . and wash our hands in their blood?" Then for a year he went into hiding in the Wartburg, there to begin his translation of the Bible, a work as fundamental to the German language as the King James version is to English...
There are men who would be identified even on a roller coaster as Harvard professors. Randall Thompson '20, professor of Music, is not one of these. He is often to be seen on the roller coaster near Saunders-town, R. I., with a swarm of kids, and one would never suspect he was a ranking expert on the fugue...
...patronage from the new governor, none at all from Harry Truman. A bill to legalize horse-race betting was laughed out of the legislature. Police raids on gambling joints continued. The President, annoyed that a noisome character like Binaggio should shunt aside his good friend Jim Pendergast, loosed a swarm of FBI men on him. A grand jury began investigating Binaggio and Kansas City crime. What was worse, the racketeers became insistent: an open city or their $100,000 back...
There is a strange philosophy at large in Harvard today--a strange fear of the menace of the emancipated Radcliffe girl. This fear expresses itself in the following argument: Harvard and Radcliffe have had joint instruction now since the war and a swarm of Annex women has pushed its collective foot into the College door; now that the first barriers are down (alas), this plague of women will move on to the clubs and organizations of Harvard. These girls, like the Yellow Peril, will sweep over the organizations. The resulting "feminization" will be the undoing of the Harvard club...