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Vanguard Boojum page nineteen (En passant - continued) facism is meaningless because hardly anybody in that camp can tell what fascism is. Praise to "Nightmare for Apartment Hunters" and "A Rose is a Rose". Fit The 3d Her Reviews J. Zissman Reviews, as this notoriously unintellectual person has said time and again, should be no different from critical comment of any other kind. What is noteworthy should be discussed; what has failed to impress should be allowed to lie happily on the margin-side. This practice of dragging each small utterance up to the public light, and there exposing its totally insignificant weaknesses and virtues, I deplore. This I have said before. Persuasion, imitation, or something has made me time and again ignore my own advice. This time I stick to it. What I fail to comment on is not necessarily bad, even from my point of view. It simply didn't arouse any strong feelings one way or t'other. STUFFANONSENSE was my all-out favorite this time. May Grassly profit from this example. Everything in it was good and funny; I couldn't begin to choose a favorite item. Long life and an inexhaustible supply of newsprint to Danner. The ads in STEFANTASY, of course as well as the items, were up to par, which is going some, but with STUFFANetc. in the mailing, even STEFangerousThYng palls a little. ACCRETION made me to be soooo happy. I've been waiting to see VKE's best in a publicatin of her own for some time, and while this is still not her top-speed, it's come a long way, even from CRETIN, which is just more of the light-weight, if fairly amusing stuff she's been dishing out lately in pubs like FIE WORKS. The P.N. piece I heartily approve of. This strikes me as a cause that writers, artists, and the rest of society's most articulate segment can do a good deal about. The facts about mental disease, and the rather impossibly ugly fact about the care of the mentally ill, should be brought out of the dark. The tendency of the sane person to think of all mental disease as a potential homicidal mania (and I don't believe I'm exaggerating) can be corrected only by a persistent and widee-spread campaign, in which articles, stories, exposes, photographs, posters and fundraiding efforts can do as much good as in a V.D. campaign, or the current all-out Cancer control drive. These are fields in which competent writers have great value. Clarity and pesistence are all that is necessary. And by the way, not one, but all [underlined] the kittens have whiskers. IN RE: THE BRIMMING COFFERS, Kidd has suggested that instead of sending food to Europe, since our contribution would be so small in proportion to what is needed, that we use surplus for aiding the P.N. campaign in some way. Now this, like the one Larry and Damon suggested, is a worthy cause, but I for one, fail to see how a sum of sixty dollars or so could be expended to any real effect. I haven't any bright ideas myself right now, but I'd like to propose that we open the matter for discussion in the mailings, or if the Tyrant wishes -- through the medium V.A. 'Twon't hurt to hold the money &
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Vanguard Boojum page nineteen (En passant - continued) facism is meaningless because hardly anybody in that camp can tell what fascism is. Praise to "Nightmare for Apartment Hunters" and "A Rose is a Rose". Fit The 3d Her Reviews J. Zissman Reviews, as this notoriously unintellectual person has said time and again, should be no different from critical comment of any other kind. What is noteworthy should be discussed; what has failed to impress should be allowed to lie happily on the margin-side. This practice of dragging each small utterance up to the public light, and there exposing its totally insignificant weaknesses and virtues, I deplore. This I have said before. Persuasion, imitation, or something has made me time and again ignore my own advice. This time I stick to it. What I fail to comment on is not necessarily bad, even from my point of view. It simply didn't arouse any strong feelings one way or t'other. STUFFANONSENSE was my all-out favorite this time. May Grassly profit from this example. Everything in it was good and funny; I couldn't begin to choose a favorite item. Long life and an inexhaustible supply of newsprint to Danner. The ads in STEFANTASY, of course as well as the items, were up to par, which is going some, but with STUFFANetc. in the mailing, even STEFangerousThYng palls a little. ACCRETION made me to be soooo happy. I've been waiting to see VKE's best in a publicatin of her own for some time, and while this is still not her top-speed, it's come a long way, even from CRETIN, which is just more of the light-weight, if fairly amusing stuff she's been dishing out lately in pubs like FIE WORKS. The P.N. piece I heartily approve of. This strikes me as a cause that writers, artists, and the rest of society's most articulate segment can do a good deal about. The facts about mental disease, and the rather impossibly ugly fact about the care of the mentally ill, should be brought out of the dark. The tendency of the sane person to think of all mental disease as a potential homicidal mania (and I don't believe I'm exaggerating) can be corrected only by a persistent and widee-spread campaign, in which articles, stories, exposes, photographs, posters and fundraiding efforts can do as much good as in a V.D. campaign, or the current all-out Cancer control drive. These are fields in which competent writers have great value. Clarity and pesistence are all that is necessary. And by the way, not one, but all [underlined] the kittens have whiskers. IN RE: THE BRIMMING COFFERS, Kidd has suggested that instead of sending food to Europe, since our contribution would be so small in proportion to what is needed, that we use surplus for aiding the P.N. campaign in some way. Now this, like the one Larry and Damon suggested, is a worthy cause, but I for one, fail to see how a sum of sixty dollars or so could be expended to any real effect. I haven't any bright ideas myself right now, but I'd like to propose that we open the matter for discussion in the mailings, or if the Tyrant wishes -- through the medium V.A. 'Twon't hurt to hold the money &
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