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...such titles as Beat Me, Post-Impressionist Daddy, Caution-Soft Prose Ahead, Psst, Partner, Your Peristalsis is Showing. They handle, with the expertness required for delivering a two-headed baby, the aching half-lunacies which turn up as a normal part of U.S. life. They use one of the rangiest and most microscopically exact vocabularies in modern letters-a vocabulary drawn entirely from those ancient, current and emergent clichés of which Flaubert and Joyce were both collectors and which are as diagnostic of a civilization as any ten theses on the Zeitgeist, and a thousand times as entertaining...
...Navy crew, though the favorite in today's race, is not the heaviest of the competing crews. The Cornell eight is the rangiest and heaviest of all the crews. Cornell is out to correct the impression it made last year, when the stroke taught by Dr. Lueder seemed extremely ineffective and the Big Red eight was left far behind. At that time the Cornell crew was rowing, as advertised, in the old Courtney style; but the trouble was that the "old Courtney style" was the form taught by the famous Cornell mentor of years past before he had found...