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...harder to be funny than to be droll, as it is harder to create a joke than a platitude, Since a comedian requires ingenuity, while a humorist can coast on a querulous attitude. As the '50s ceded to the '60s, and the psychological to the psychedelic, Nash acquired the attic odor of a literary relic. The simple notion of an exact, if eccentric rhyme, Which Nash shared with the best lyricists of his generation, no longer applied in a day when songwriters twinned "June" with "broom" and "time" with "mine." Like Parker and Peter Arno, he represented The New Yorker...
...could always set up an Amway distributorship. Door prizes at the barbecue! Autographed 8-x-10 glossies of the stars. I have an attic full...
...wonder if colonization might somehow be magical. After all, Miles Davis is the direct descendant of slaves and slave owners. Hank Williams is the direct descendant of poor whites and poorer Indians. In 1876 Emily Dickinson was writing her poems in an Amherst attic while Crazy Horse was killing Custer on the banks of the Little Big Horn. I remain stunned by these contradictions, by the successive generations of social, political and artistic mutations that can be so beautiful and painful. How did we get from there to here? This country somehow gave life to Maria Tallchief and Ted Bundy...
...provide them with a natural bent toward listening. They can be reconcilers; they can understand the sufferings of both sexes. They're natural priests." McNichols now worries that his ability to minister will be taken away. "We're all sort of like Anne Frank's family, up in the attic, waiting for the Nazis to come. And that's wrong," he says. "The Church of Christ should not be a fearful place...
BATTY ATTRACTIONS It's probably not a good sign when the most interesting feature of an art museum isn't the art. But many museums around the world show off great art and sculpture; only one hosts a massive colony of rare bats in its attic that stream out by the hundreds of thousands at sundown. Visitors gather on the sidewalks around the National Museum in Phnom Penh on clear evenings to watch the stunning exodus; and it saves them the $2 cost of admission...