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Just why the 'Poon editors feel it necessary to have girls on the staff is unclear--perhaps they think it will improve the humor of the magazine, which, in recent months, has slipped to a position somewhat short of overpowering. Perhaps the dutch tiles with which the walls of their sanctum are lined need a spring cleaning; perhaps they look forward to a gayer decor, with chintz curtains in every leaded window...
...effort, however, things are not so rosy. The big gun in the salve of diversity, William E. Wiggin's weighty sociological analysis of the Jew at Harvard, seems to have little meaning. His statistics are interesting (if true); but just why he was impelled to write the article is unclear. That Harvard's Jewish students rank high scholastically, that they are active in extra-curricular groups, and that they are not in the clubs are facts well-known to those who care about them. It's a fine idea to run non-fiction research articles; but this reviewer cannot...
...that is both curious and ominous. It implies that we are being attacked and that we must defend ourselves. The phrase "peace blitz" has even been used here and there recently; it emphasizes this implication. But just where the danger lies in such a "blitz" is peculiarly unclear. Nor is it clear how, in the name of peace, you can defend yourself against the "blitz...
True, he makes a convincing summary in his first review of "Harvard's and Radcliffe's literary magazines in the recent past" but his conclusions are unclear. There is or there is not "readability" or "need for clarification." He seldom takes the trouble to give examples or say what he is talking about. Mr. Bush writes well in "places," Mr. Rinehart has poor dialogue "in places," etc., and we are promised an image at the end of Miss Rich's poem that is "in itself one of the finest bits of writing to appear since the war in Cambridge...
...Crouse satire are fortunately few, and though the "State of the Union" doesn't always succeed, it never quite sceedes. Adolphe Menjou has apparently profited from his recent star-chamber experience for he is convincing as a machine politician. Whether machines are as harmless as Tracy suggests is still unclear. Yet though his head is in the clouds, his toes are down among the grass roots, and no self-respectin' man or woman can failed to be moved...