BRACERS Record Detail for 117701
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Dated from the book's publication date.
Reviewed titled, "Those Moderns" of the book 'Thinking in Front of Yourself' and Other Plays by the Children of Beacon Hill School.
"To call the stuff that these children have produced nonsense would be to pay it an undeserved compliment—any simple, unspoilt child who has the gift of self-expression can produce nonsense stories and verses which may be quite delightful, but the nauseating tosh that these sophisticated little prigs have painstakingly evolved from their inner consciousness is certainly not in that category. It is not the fault of the children; one can only be heartily sorry for the poor little things, whose minds have obviously been so drenched in a flood of pseudo-psychology, sex obsession, and sensationalism that they have no simplicity or childish imagination left."
