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Those fond of old songs and customs have one last hope for a revival of the old days, i.e., the return of beer and ale which may engender a new congeniality unknown to our generation. Our over-sophisticated "veneer" may be washed away by libations of "brown October ale," and the imbibition of the cup that cheers. Bring on "Handsome Dan," turtle-neck Y-sweaters, peg top trousers, bicycles, mustaches, and "Bright College Years" once more. The Yale News...
...author is not satirical, nor is he bitter. The dialogue is terse, but not disconnected. Though Mr. Hemingway is openly sentimental in the sketch of Nicholas Adams's youth, his writing in this story is at his best. Perhaps he will continue to write without the pseudo-hard-boiled veneer which has pervaded most of his short stories in the past. "Fathers And Sons" was the last of the collection; we hope it was the last that he wrote, and that he will continue with more like...
...designing committee recently finished the construction of an imposing courtroom set wherein a large portion of the action takes place. The walls are made of veneer panelling, while the set itself is an accurate reproduction made from pictures obtained in London of an English courtroom. The aim in its construction is for realism; the purpose of which being to heighten the dramatic effect...
...Trocadero, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and to Versailles" with "remaining free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide the thin veneer of background to match the slurred R's of the midwestern matron. The refuge for Americans too far developed for the rubber-neck wagon excursions, however, is the American colony in Paris, which has its annex on the Cote d'Or, and which is equally empty of intellectual nourishment and stimulation...
...steps of Widener, with the professors and the professors' wives, the students and girls from Radcliffe listening under the shadow of the elms, with the sun going down in subdued splendor, and the pigeons fluttering about the columns, the Vagabond detects a freshness and spontaneity which break through the veneer of Harvard indifference. Last night only a slightly chilly wind checked his enthusiasm, and even that did not prevent him from joining the group of carollers on the steps, at the invitation of the impressario. Enthusiasm and a large crowd can cover a multitude of vocal sins, as they...