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Remarkably enough, there have been few really satisfactory dictionaries of American slang. H. L. Mencken made his prodigious contribution (The American Language), and Lester Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark produced their useful but not fundamental compendium (The American Thesaurus of Slang). Standing up well against the competition, Dr. Harold Wentworth, editor of the American Dialect Dictionary, and Stuart Berg Flexner, Cornell and University of Louisville philologist, have produced a handy, invaluable reference work that may well emerge as the standard in the field. In short, the authors have done a remarkably fly and dicty...
...they are boffo as never before-perhaps because restless audiences, tired of passively watching so much canned and channeled entertainment, are eager for such tangible Freedomland features as an electromagnetic dragon, real buffalo grazing the prairies, honest Indians taking passengers for rides in birchbark Chippewa war canoes (the birch bark is actually Fiberglas, and the Chippewas are mainly Cherokees, recruited by Manhattan Cherokee Arthur Junaluska, the ranking redskin in New York). Freedomland's immigration fee is $1 (less for children), and 50^ is the top price for the individual attractions, which include...
...Bark Is Worse. In Auburn, Me., after being told by an angry motorcyclist that a dog had bitten his tire, Policeman Robert Vaillancourt investigated, pigeonholed the complaint when he discovered that the dog was toothless...
...Annunzio began his unlikely career by being born. not. as he claimed, in a bark at sea during a gale, but in the half-pagan, half-bigoted province of Abruzzi...
...almost as forbidding as to a layman. Crux of the matter: drugs influence mental function mainly through their effects on two parts of the brain: 1) the primitive midbrain's reticular (little network) formation, and 2) the connections between the thalamus (inner chamber) and the outer cortex (bark), the most sophisticated and evolutional-ly the newest part of the brain. Dr. Himwich reported...