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...mouth." Or, preparing to leave Cambridge at last, he may sigh: "home is where you hang your hat it." For these bemused undergraduates we offer a little game to be played on the long car ride home: Pervert-a-Proverb. The sayings to be spoonerized may be drawn from Aesop or advertizing. No matter. Here are a few easy warmer- uppers. (Answers are on page...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd. The Met delved into its vast print collection and found some 50 versions of Aesop's Fables. They go back to 1484, when William Caxton did the first English edition...
Dempsey cites a string of achievements in education, job retraining, highways, and attracting nuclear research industries, calls his opponent's charges "Alsop's Fables." Alsop's retort: fabled Fabler Aesop was put to death by the citizens of Delphi for refusing to distribute money to them -because he found them grasping and greedy...
...animated Canada "overrun by Canadians and smugglers." the show presents Dudley Do-Right of the Mounted Police; and in a satire on hi-fi and electronics there is a tape recorder that plays bagpipes when it is fed Scotch tape. Also, there is a biweekly revival of Aesop, who tells fables for our prime time, such as one about a neurotic lion who would rather sing than roar. Every time he tries to roar, he sneezes. ''You need help. Leo baby," says his friend the fox. And with the fox as agent, Leo becomes a celebrated pop singer...
Edifying material regarding donkeys can be found in Aesop's Fables and in the more recent publications of various members of the Faculty...