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Those thesaurus-enhanced sentences scarcely sound pretentious when compared to Delbanco's generous use of allusion. References to virtually everything abound--"Leave It To Beaver," imaginary numbers and most classical composers are just a few of the staggering number of items mentioned. Delbanco likes allusions in English, but he loves them in foreign languages. Most European tongues are represented in Old Scores, had the book been any longer Delbanco would have had to use some non-Western quotes for variety. Rather than adding to the texture of the book, they merely provide a superficial veneer of erudition...
...sides were always fighting. When the ranchers were ready to move a herd, for instance, they didn't stop to think what a thousand hooves would do to the tiny sponge traps scientists use to collect invertebrates from beaver ponds. Seeking detente, Lohr and Trampe started talking, and each was surprised by the other's willingness to learn. They began having long discussions about agriculture and the environment. Lohr saw that the area's century-old cattle-rotation system--driving the herds into the high country in summer while growing hay on the valley floor--meshes with the natural ecological...
...would be a mistake, however, to think of TV history as one long, uninterrupted drift toward untrammeled license. Moral values are, of course, relative. Party of Five features yards of premarital sex, yet is also a warmer celebration of family bonds than, say, Leave It to Beaver or The Donna Reed Show. Today there are new taboos. "Nobody's going to do abortion on a sitcom today, but Maude did it back in 1972," says Bruce Helford, co-creator and executive producer of The Drew Carey Show. He's referring to the famous episodes of Maude in which Bea Arthur...
...probably beginning to envy the busy, (over-)productive lifestyles of the proletariat (that's us hard-working types). If, however, you work (i.e. study) for a living, you must be fantasizing about how you could pull off that couch/grape thing (aah--spring break!). No matter how diligent a little beaver you are, with the Moon's nodes crossing the Pisces-Virgo axis, you're sure to be plotting moments of escape from drudgery (thank goodness for study breaks and the phone). But in the end, work will turn out to be your salvation (midterms after break). Drat (and have...
Campaign funds are given to politicians and political parties to influence votes and get favors. So if the politicians who get the funds do not vote the way the donor wants, aren't they taking money under false pretenses? STEWART M. LEE Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania...