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...same issue, an Education story about a limerick contest staged by Connecticut's Mohegan Community College ("A Rich Orgy of Witty Ditties") brought in a batch of limericks in reply. Some readers claimed that the contest limericks did not scan. But most scolded Limerick Judge Isaac Asimov for his assertion that in limerick writing, "women tend to be dirtier but less clever than men." Countered Reader Margaret Mitchell Dukore of Kaneohe, Hawaii...
...response to Limerick Judge Isaac Asimov's comment that "women tend to be dirtier but less clever than men" [April 24], I offer the following observation: The ladies endeavored with zest, The limerick prize to contest
Author Isaac Asimov turned down an invitation Monday to speak at the Senior Class Day ceremony. He joins a growing list of celebrities who refused the same invitation, including woody Allen, Lily Tomlin and Orson Welles...
...Asimov was the last speaker from a list of "possibles" to reply. "We gave our first two or three choices a lot of time to respond. That's why we're in trouble now," Llewellyn J. Marczuk '78, senior class marshal, said Monday...
Although a number of the 86 finalists were women, none won awards. Asimov felt confirmed in his thesis concerning women and limericks. "Women tend to be dirtier but less clever than men," he says. "I don't know why, but they can be surprisingly vulgar...