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...Lawrence Osgood, ranks foremost for its gently tripping pace and for its neat imagery. "Point of Departure," by John Ashbery, and "Anatomy of Degradation," by John Simon, both lack the polished impact of Osgood's brief offering. The poetry necessarily should provide the magazine's continuity-breaks in the utter absence of anything resembling commentary on contemporary issues. One wouldn't even want William Becker's excellent discussion of John Millington Synge to reach a more sensational conclusion than that the Irish playwright led the modern field in "unselfconscious realism...
...shelved. Says she: "I'll never do it again. The movies are no good for me. What I hate most is the misuse of the medium, and there's no use putting the blame on the twelve-year-old intelligence of the public. Rather it is the utter ignorance of the people who make movies. They create in perfect cynicism what they think will sell . . . . I have no word to say of what I think of their [the movies'] evil. I don't go; I can't take the beating...
High Pressure. "On the floor below is utter confusion. To the left is the big wheat pit. To the right, the corn pit and the smaller oats and cotton pits. In front of them are batteries of desks with phones connected to brokerage houses...
Last year the city of Ames had a local campaign of its own, headed by Dr. Harold Gunderson of Iowa State College. Ames sprayed and scrubbed itself into almost utter flylessness. In the stores, the hanging ribbons of flypaper, usually black with entangled prey, remained naked all summer, or were thrown away...
...Houses had attempted some constructive program of their own to substitute for formal tutorial, this situation would not exist. In the thirties, with the tutorial system flourishing, there was little for the Houses to do, although even then a Crimson editorial deplored their "utter disregard for the extra-curricular but still intellectual side of undergraduate life." Today, with their failure to organize small, departmental discussion groups, to encourage more than the occasional forums held in two of the Houses, in short, to fill in the educational holes caused by a threadbare tutorial system, this "utter disregard" has become more basic...