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...tripe published by American editors...
...possibility of Chip Gannon's emerging as a tripe-threat back developed after the Chipper had gotten off some long, rainbow boots in the kicking practice. Noonan, Moffie, and Leo Flynn shared the passing chores, and when Soldiers Field finally blacked out, the squad moved under the floodlights for signal drills...
...answer to all this is that music is music; at the time we may associate certain emotions with it; in another period its effect may be entirely different. I am afraid music is a foreign language to Professor Gore also, with his talk of "osculatory orchestration" and similar tripe. He says church music should be written by the "best composers." Who decides who are the best composers? Professor Gore...
...wish space permitted me to quote the entire magazine here. That would be the most effective way of proving my point. The Christmas issue is a hodge-podge collection of tripe--cynically designed to startle Harvard by exposing the fact that there is no Santa Claus, a really novel idea. The Lampoon's dearth of ideas is demonstrated by their choice of material for the review column, "As Lampy Sees Them." They fall back on a pair of antique Fredrick March sagas, that no one is interested in, and write a review that is worse than the pictures something commonly...
...mannered, unkempt son of a tight-fisted petit bourgeois, he was at heart a snob and a social climber who faked a claim to nobility. To keep up with the post-Napoleonic Joneses, Balzac sat at his table for twelve hours a day, years on end, turning out alternately tripe and masterpieces. Before he was 40 his fame was such that publishers bought and paid for his novels before they were written. But earlier, says Zweig, "there was no literary iniquity that he could not stomach. He was a harlot serving simultaneously two or three literary pimps...