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...chance to think about smoking, but as soon as I'm well, I'll start again. I'm weak, I know I'm weak." Obviously, Alan's motivation is already shaky: "You can't just stand around at cocktail parties smoking a carrot," he complains...
...related projects on campuses throughout the country. To the more intelligent college administrators, it was evident that the greatest difficulty in enlisting students in a "Second Children's Crusade" (as Time Magazine calls it) was that students had learned well the lessons of the first, the McCarthy campaign. The carrot of establishment politics proved only partially successful in diverting student anger-what was needed was the stick of repression...
...That is a thing you can't get in a chophouse-I mean; a spiced beef in which the jelly does not taste of glue and the beef has caught the flavor of the carrot...
Mark Twain anticipated the "crickit" problem when he first published Huckleberry Finn in 1884. In a prefatory notice he warned that persons attempting to find either motive, moral or plot in the novel would be respectively prosecuted, banished or shot. It was like a carrot farmer putting up a no-trespass sign for rabbits. The book was pounced on immediately by the upholders of the well-made novel and 19th century gentility. Most critics found it shapeless, and vulgar. "If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses," said Louisa May Alcott...
...with no teeth and a beard and a brown suit in which the pocket was filled with ball point pens lined up like cigars and of which the zipper was completely missing and he ate half his grilled cheese sandwich before putting the second half, the chips and the carrot Curl into a brown paper sack and lighting a cigarette a Chesterfield and looking like Ezra Pound who was born not far from here in Hailey, Idaho. His name was Seth Morrison, born in Salt Lake in 1895, educated at Andover and Yale before going...