Word: wildes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WILD ASSES-James G. Dunton- Small, Maynard ($2.00). Mr Dunton an immature Harvard graduate, smudges painfully. He has a turgid mind, a high-school style, scant humor, literary myopia. Concentrating on an underground foreground, he dimly depicts crass youths guzzling bad gin, shooting craps, reading cinema magazines, swapping low stories, frequenting dives and brothels, being obscurely restless and messing up their young lives generally. One logy character plays football, stays respectable, is a college success. Another (the author) achieves a half-baked perception of his contemporaries as Wild Asses and Blunderbrats, laboriously adduces the law of compensation to flappers...
...Crimson Bookshelf (monthlu literary supplement of The Harvard Crimson): (Wild Marriage)-"The Harvard world is likely to remain complacent in the face of the terrible revelations...
...wild story rose, like a drowned cadaver, to the air. . . . How this man Parton had tried to kill Eliphalet ... how Eliphalet had marooned him on an island, sailed away in a ship whose cargo was a load of black, bewildered, suffering flesh from Africa . . . how hate had kept alive the man who walked like a cat and kept Eliphalet drumming with long yellow fingers on the counting-house table...
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...WILD MARRIAGE-B. H. Lehrm Harper ($2.00). Mr. Lehman, a ture Harvard graduate, sketches easily. He exhibits a venerable insitution as background for a gently satirical study in motives. Professors, if musty, are mellow. Undergraduates, if callow, are traditionally precocious. College evils; however undesireable are not tragic. anbridge conventions if stifling, are sincere. The story itself, slightly artificial but cleverly told, is a product of older Harvard : Elam Dunster, great-great-grandsired by a Harvard president returns to his professor-father from a sophisticated childhood in Europe with his runaway mother and her lover. He discovers a quixotic passion...