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Title Bodenheim, Maxwell, (also works), n. d., 1954, 1967, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1947

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1947

Place United States

Language English

Subjects Authors, American, Bohemianism, New Left, Radicalism in literature, Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription Feb 5.57Dear Jack - Thank you for the ever-lovin' buck, and more so in view of the fact you deprived yourself to send it. I wish I could be like those accomplished burglars who have buckets of rubies hidden away for just such painful emergencies. If time doesn't run out on me, I may someday graduate to such eminence and expertise - trouble is that in this school, every wrong answer is screeching disaster. I blame it on the Miltown. Having gulped it injudiciously all Xmas day, I was not only tranquillized but paralyzed. And filled with such a glacial calm that it is a mercy the banks were closed, I was indomitable and fearless. The recklessness was a thing that had been building for some time of course. The pressures and annoyances of a commercial Yuletide in all its shrill avarice, the frenzy of it, contributed much to the mood. Even the Salvation Army, always dependable, always a sad and wistful little note in all the garishness, blossomed out in plastic-type shelters and microphones, electronically, deafeningly, beseeching. Gone were the tripod and kettle, the pleasant small tinkling bell. And I wondered what Madison Ave. lout had conceived in his gray-flanneled brain the streamlining of the ancient rite of alms-giving. There were other irritations. The noble art of boosting, always the prime sport of the season, was all but ruined by the crafty ? Dance of these Pharisees. Ruined, too, by hordes of amateurs. It got so that one had to tear an article from the competing grasp of some beardless

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 3 Folder 131

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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