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OBSCURITY is usually annoying: if someone has something to say, he should say it, and not hedge around with poetic hemmings and hawings, cute blushes, inarticulate murmurs, and so forth. A lot of what I'm supposed to admire is stuff that bores me and that I can't understand and that I can't understand and that its adorers can't explain...
...Doren's prize pupil, and refers to Eliot as "Tom" and Joyce as "Jim." Berryman, of course, is noted for this sort of thing, the seeming arrogance which some how made the Dream Songs so fetching. Here, however, it becomes almost overpowering; the poems become one long stream of cute in-jokes...
Unfortunately, Briscusse feels obliged to make practically everyone else sing a lot. The ever so cute street urchins with the absolutely charming Cockney accents have a comic song, and Bob Cratchit sings a merry Christmas tune, and Tiny Tim gives us a wistful little solo, and Fezziwig's daughter, in Christmas past, has a beautiful love song, none of which make me want to buy the sound track. Aside from the mediocrity of the music, the problem is that Dickens is already about as full of sentimentality as a writer can be without being positively offensive, and this kind...
...just about to introduce the Vice President. They won't let me say but ten words, so what can I say? He's what? You bet he's cute! And . . . what is that? A peerless prince of positive patriotism? Let me write that down. Now I've got one for youhe is the most marvelous man Maryland ever mothered . . . Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States." Through all of this, Attorney General John Mitchell sat on the dais with a small smile on his face. Agnew acknowledged the introduction with...
...vodka and tomato juice at 10:30at night, I hasten to add instead of 6:30 as at present." On money: "We both try to live up to the rules of easy wealth. Elizabeth treats it all as fairy money. She scatters it. I am pretty cute business-wise. Some time ago, I went into a deal with two Swiss gnomes and an industrialist and set up a bank in Switzerland. So I am a banker, and a better banker than any you will find in New York or London...