Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pericles of Provincetown* "What is it, this thing we call personality? One wants to tell about a man, 'make him real.' He is an intellectual man and a religious man, a man with a great gift of wonder, so one tells much of the life within, particularly as he himself has left the record, tells truly as one knows how, of struggles and failures as well as visions that became creations. All this is true, yet somehow the man himself is not there...
...following review of the "Wonder Book," Lampy's current special number, was written by F. W. C. Hersey '99, of the University English Department...
When I first saw the cover of the Lampoon's Wonder-Book, I felt sure I should enjoy the number. One could hardly imagine a more charming prelude--a boy and girl wandering across a fairy heath where on near the witch tree and far from the enchanted castle they meet a glant and discover elves; all this in exquisite tinis and April airlness. What a clever hand Philip Boone must have, I said; and I turned to the pictures within to see how the other articles had expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books...
...cover rather wistfully, I though. Yes, we can make fun of children's stories, but this doesn't seen; to rub the bloom off. We like them all the more for their artlessness, their quaint little ways. And how harmoniously the editors worked together to create their Wonder-Book and to maintain throughout their tone of genial fantasy...
...proper interpretation, just how honesty is to be made the guiding principle of a prominent swindler's son, or how respect for the flag is to be inspired without arousing dangerous international antipathies indicate a more difficult problem than the Senator seems to contemplate. Finally we are led to wonder how the youthful Nebraskans are to be instructed in the proper sense of the dignity of honest labor. Will they be shown what ravages idleness wrecked on the civilizations of antiquity, or will they by any chance be taught to learn the next day's grammar and arithmetic and history...