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...Small Dance," for instance, is a pointless story describing a young gentleman's adventures at a debutante ball. The characters, descriptions, and impressions are Lampoon stock in trade apparently passed down from generation to generation. "Atmofphere Pluf" is a gag story built around the use of the Old English "f" to replace "s" on the menn of a country restaurant; this is conceivably a suitable practice around which to build a witty story, but the writer merely thinks of all the words he knows that have "s" in them and substitutes the antiquated "f". If any attention...
...this all makes for amusing reading--but pretty pointless. The "issue"--if it can be called that--has merely served as a pleasant excuse for idle Harvard undergraduates to take callow pen in hand and produce--Look, Everybody!--a Treatise. Students with serious qualms about the furtherance of Joint Instruction might do better by presenting petitions to the proper College authorities, or merely by leaving, than by cheapening their newspaper with a deluge of trite beefs. However, it seemed to us that most of the letters were written in a spirit of levity; if not, their feverish carnestness about...
...show is not as pointless as it looks. It gives the Russian people the illusion that they are actually participating in their government. A recent issue of the Soviet magazine Krokodil printed a song that expressed the mood which the "elections" are supposed to create...
Every time a baby is found dead in his crib, apparently smothered by bedclothing or a soft pillow, the mother is tortured by the feeling that she should have been more careful. Neighbors and kin often brand her as negligent. Almost all such blame and remorse are pointless, says Dr. Keith Bowden in the current Australian Medical Journal: cases of "baby smothering" are usually due to unsuspected disease...
Until this week the Russian papers had been known to few. If the facts they contain had been properly publicized, a lot of spy chasing and pointless orating might have been avoided. The AEC might also have persuaded millions of Americans not to count on a "secret" which the whole scientific world knew...