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Show Writers Confuse Smut With Sex, Dirty Stuff; No Reason for Writing It By IRVIN S. COBB, in New York World. I know the crowd you mean. They are so busy discovering sex and garbage they have forgotten beauty exists in the world. And they have become so fascinated with the words themselves they have forgotten that words are supposed to convey something to the mind other than mere sound. Take the case of Chicago, for instance. Chicago woke up one morning morn-ing and discovered that there were a lot of writers there. Bang ! The "Chicago school" came into being. They didn't seem to realize that writers are somewhat like skunks; get enough of 'em together and you have a bad smell. Not that I'm saying they can't write. Some of them can; but they are floundering around in a maze of words. Chicago seems to be suffering from nervous culture. Many of her writers are writing propaganda and propaganda is never art. It can't be. And then many writers confuse con-fuse smut with sex. Dirty stuff; no reason for writing it. |