Word: doo
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...declamatory and more than most energetic, filled like a great stuffed pie with backward looking happy smiles on the dead and useless bodies (suffocating names, proficiences, and adjectives--states symbolized) revered because they are dead and useless and can't kick. The poet treats these bodies to expressions--Cockadoodle doo!--and then hands them to the strangler who near the end is caught reading The Hudson Review. I overflow on Kenneth Koch because he is alive and seems to exemplify in some ways what the editors have gotten around to saying. He is also clear...
...frats, moreover, have deep roots in Penn's history, and to suggest that they are perhaps a bit archaic is to incur undying hatred from many prominent (and wealthy) alumni. The "old grad" would as soon sacrifice a thousand professors as do away with old Kappa Dappa Doo. Whether or not it likes the system, the University is shackeled to it for the foreseeable future...
...most Australians, "humpty doo" means "all right, everything is O.K." But to the hardy residents of tiny Humpty Doo in Australia's Northern Territory, the term is a wry joke. Humpty Doo lies in a waste of desert and jungle twice the size of Texas-the territorial "Outback" below Darwin. It is a land of crocodiles and kangaroos, of torrential, 60-in. rain fall half the year and bone-dry drought the rest. Last week Humpty Doo held promise of living up to its name. After three years of study, a group of U.S. businessmen headed by Los Angeles...
...Taming of the Shrew by you-know-who is the whoop-dee-doo on channel 4 but not 2. Sunday...
...pronunciation of the average song stylist. To those who find lyrics incomprehensible as well as obscure. I can only offer this advice: 1) Make no distinction between vowels, because the singers themselves make none; 2) Do not worry if monosyllables are turned into polysyllables: 3) The expressions "doo doo doo doo" and "du whah, du whah" are not meant to be words, but are to create a rhythmical effect...