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HIGH INFIDELITY. In four zesty episodes, this Italian comedy draws and quarters the subjects of extramarital dalliance, assigning the choicer bits to a jealous wife (Monica Vitti) and a vacationing businessman (Nino Manfredi...
...Deer, Alta., is a Canadian farm center of only 25,000 population. Yet in a single day recently, Red Deer's merchants rang up $1,000,000 in sales to Christmas-shopping prairie farmers. Some bought second and third TV sets; their wives got leopard jackets ("much choicer than mink") and Russian squirrel coats. A local Chrysler dealer had 68 paid-up back orders for cars, while the Ford man stopped taking orders altogether "until we catch up." For winter vacations, Red Deer's travel agents recommend Hawaii, Hong Kong, the West Indies. When summer comes...
...assuage your fears, the Catalogue does add that "there are other things to be done" than study in summertime Cambridge, and we have heard a similar rumor. But there are indeed "course offerings," and we review here, for your edification, some of the choicer morsels...
...whisky tenor is unmistakable. To the late H. L. Mencken, iconoclastic polemic was the choicer part of criticism. His aim was to high-browbeat "the populace" with a club: to fight American Gothic, Mencken became the great American Goth. All of this, and more, is made pleasantly apparent in two excellent Mencken samplers, in which he plays at two of his favorite roles-music critic and man-of-letters...
...Toast, No Butter. Now and then, of course. Dr. Lenard suffers a slip of the stylus. Forgivably enough, he fumbles a number of Milne's choicer puns ("ambush" as a bush, "issue" as a sneeze), and the great gag about Piglet's grandfather. Trespassers W. somehow just lies there in Latin. Furthermore, panistostatus cum butyro, though verbally correct, makes no sense at all in the Roman context as a translation of "buttered toast." According to Dr. Frederick L. Santee, a leading U.S. Latinist, the Romans had no toast and no word for it, and though they...