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...cards "a noun or verb or combination of both with which they would care to associate themselves." When a performer shuffles the cards and finds himself confronted with "carry fish" and "hit piano strings," what would be more natural than to whop the piano with a frozen carp...
...Huxley was laughing at was the fact that, amid all the scented oils and raw vegetable lunches, no one thought of trying Huxley's own recipe for longevity set forth in his famed satirical novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. The recipe: a steady diet of carp's intestines...
...CRIMSON, of course, had to carp somewhat. "J.B. is probably neither great poetry nor great poetic drama," wrote a tough-minded member of the Editorial Board--"although it is good enough in both respects. What it mainly offers for the modern reader is a literate statement of philosophy which finds the middle ground between religious panacea and existentialist despair." This "middle ground" was explained as the fact that "J.B. forgives God. This is not the tragedian's agnosticism or the atheist's bland facility--MacLeish has added to the stature of man at the expense...
...because Congress, as the founding fathers intended, does not directly represent the majority will. What emerges from Congress is a composite of the "specific interests, goals, values, ideals and sentiments" of citizens in the various states and congressional districts. Through the slow-paced committee system that critics of Congress carp at, Congress hears all sides, compromises the conflicts, takes the interests of minorities into account, arrives at "an adjustment and balancing of needs, interests and aims...
Critics may carp about the dearth of live television shows, reports the trade magazine Television Age, but so far as the general public is concerned, it could hardly care less. After sending Pulse, Inc. to pry into 1,000 TV-equipped homes, Television Age was surprised to learn that nearly 82% of televiewers never wondered whether a program was live or filmed. So many people guessed wrong about so many programs, said the magazine, "that maybe all the industry polemics regarding live and film is pretty much a waste of time and breath...