THE SPRING FARCE
Dobius, Egor Q.
T H E S P R I N G F A R C E L E T T E R S to the Editor Egor Q. Dobius It was spring, that time of year when every redblooded lad's thoughts take a romantic turn. This turn need not be...
...Naturally devotion to any part of the capitalistic system is reserved exclusively for any troglodyte who through some fluke happens to wander into the groves of the academy...
...And together they discover a raison d'etre amid this veil of tears...
...HAHHY a THUMAN INDEPENDENCE...
...Such frolics though are n ow passe...
...Sincerely yours...
...The boycott was a self-defeating strategy that seems to have been selected not as an expression of concern, but rather for its romantic appeal of dedication and sacrifice...
...heroism...
...the presently stylish raison d'etre is devotion to nothing as provincial as a member of the opposite sex, but rather to the great and all-encompassing mankind...
...Ditto devotion to anti-communism...
...T H E S P R I N G F A R C E L E T T E R S to the Editor Egor Q. Dobius It was spring, that time of year when every redblooded lad's thoughts take a romantic turn...
...All that fun is no longer wrong...
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...Paul, baby, you blew it...
...Tyrrell: I was very pleased to have the May-June issue of "The Alternative" I read with special interest your interview with my long time, good friend Jim Farley, one of the oldest political leaders in the history of the Democratic Party...
...To some it was surprising that the symbol of unity was merely a red arm band and not a brovm shirt...
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...But the boycott itself had abnegated any valid student interest...
...This turn need not be merely one of love but m a y be one of entire romanticism...
...Formerly this devotion was centered upon one's religion or occupation...
...As one newspaper declared, the boycott was a "vacation," a marvelous excuse to desert the frustrating toil of thought...
...Added to that, of course, was the wearing of arm bands as a symbol of unity...
...It was spring, that time of year when the typical, invigorated college lad devotes himself to a fair damsel...
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...Far be it from the "modernists" to take such an atavistic turn...
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...Last spring many of I. U. 's campus leaders indicated that dedication could be manifested and the sanctity of mankind defended by attending rallies, sleeping late, getting a suntan rfnd screeching "unity...
...Malcolm Boyd...
...Each of the new subscribers will receive a gift card in your name...
...Consequently the spirit of adventure must be replanted in some less superficial aspect of romanticism, e.g...
...This quasi-devotion fulfills, in most, their psychological need for dedication to something more important than themselves...
...Address City State & , -Zip Code_ 310...
...With "situation ethics" and "new morality" legalizing lust in the guise of love, part of the adventure is lost from the traditional spring "wodsie...
...In neither case can religion answer the psychological need...
...R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Currently however, the religious establishment is split between those priests w h o make it irrelevant, e. g. the typical small town answer to Jonathan Edwards, and those who make it temporal rather than spiritual, e.g...
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...Consequently, the psychological need remains to be fulfilled by dedication to the brotherhood of man...
...Student unity in the boycott was officially to indicate solidarity...
Vol. 3 • September 1969 • No. 2
