Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surrealist Landscapes. A sense of wonder pervaded the journals that Lewis & Clark kept. They expected to find mammoths and perhaps stranger prehistoric creatures. There was said to be a mountain of solid rock salt somewhere along their way, 180 miles long and 45 miles wide. They came into a land where they were shut in by steel-blue mountains, so alike that they seemed to have come into a country of mirrors. Once Meriwether Lewis, exploring alone the Great Falls of the Missouri, found himself studying the water foaming over the high masses of rocks. Below him the Missouri stretched...
...Last week Westinghouse proudly announced an invention which it called the most important since the development of the spring: a super shock-absorber system that promises to smooth out the roughest roadbed. Now a passenger will be able to stroll the length of the train without sitting on a stranger...
John Ashbery, no stranger to the Advocate's pages, has turned his ever-competent hand to prose this month. The result is a dream-like story of innuendo, that flits from the amusing to the near-terrifying. "Fete Galante" has as its scene a ball given by an old man on his birthday. "At midnight everyone unmasks!" announces the old man's trusty retainer, but no one is wearing a mask. The true "meaning" of that incident, or of the whole piece, is elusive, but the story is certainly one of aimlessness and frustration; it is objective, succeeding largely because...
...Still stranger, the situation is purely one-sided. Princeton has its Orange Key Society, Dartmouth its Green Key, and so on through the Ivy League schools, to solve just this problem. The Key organizations, partly honorary and partly functional societies, send representatives to meet the teams at the train, to guide them to their hotel or dormitory, and in general to see that they are taken care of throughout the weekend. At some of the colleges, the society provides tickets for any current dance or festivity, and at all of them it makes sure that the visitors can get into...
...Welcome Stranger (Paramount...