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...Barrel. Packaging made Nabisco. The company began 65 years ago as an amalgamation of regional cracker bakers, quickly dominated the industry by taking the cracker out of the barrel and putting it into a box as the original Uneeda Biscuit. Nabisco now sells its 139 kinds of cookies and crackers in 307 different packages. Raymond Loewy designs them, and they are carefully test-marketed to gauge the lure of their colors, shapes and such gimmicks as "reclosable linings...
...that, because they are white, they will have to prove themselves time and time again before they can be one of the people--fight with them and not for them. The vacationers register a few voters (sell a few gallons of healing oil and an insurance policy), antagonize a cracker grocery store owner or two (collegiate mischief), then take off for school and--poof--their work goes up in the smoke of myth and old habit...
Douglass' Baltimore idyl came to an end. He was sent back to rural Maryland and farmed out to a cracker named Edward Covey, who enjoyed a reputation as a "nigger breaker." Covey very nearly broke Douglass. Called "the Snake" because he was always sneaking up on the slaves at work, Covey ruled by terror. "My natural elasticity was crushed," writes Douglass, "the disposition to read departed, the dark night of slavery closed in upon me." But Covey flogged Douglass once too often. In a fit of rage, Douglass grabbed Covey by the neck and beat him up. Covey never...
...good professor who just happens to be soft on grades and work for reasons that range from fondness for overworked students to earnest boosterism ("We must stimulate interest in Shakespeare"). Such benevolence is subject to whim: sudden crackdowns make one year's gut next year's skull-cracker. Thus, each fall the avid "gut-seeker," as Harvard calls him, has to sniff out anew the telltale signs: heavy class attendance, especially by football players, and a proneness to refer to the course in slang, such as "Spots and Dots" (modern art), "Cops and Robbers" (criminology), "Pots and Pans...
...Pound and was unawed, sold his first book, and three years later returned to the U.S. in triumph. In the long later years, he won the Pulitzer Prize four times, taught at Amherst and Dartmouth, was a familiar figure on the lecture circuit. He became a sort of traveling cracker-barrel sage who could produce an aphorism at the drop of a question. Asked his opinion of free verse, he said: "I would as soon play tennis without a net." Asked whether literature was an escape, he snapped: "The weak think they are escaping; the strong think they are pursuing...