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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Random House Dictionary of the English Language...
...said a 17th century English poet proclaimed, "He who perpetrates a pun would pick a pocket...
GUMMIDGE: Not at all. You can now use it even when addressing preschoolers. In his book Translations from the English, Robert Paul Smith offers these samples: "He shows a real ability in plastic conception." That means he can make a snake out of clay. "He's rather slow in group integration and reacts negatively to aggressive stimulus." He cries easily. And "He does seem to have developed late in large-muscle control." He falls on his head frequently...
STUDENT: But that's not even English...
...strangeness of his work. Printers refused to set his more gamy passages in type. The husband of one of Joyce's typists was so outraged by the manuscript of Ulysses that he set it on fire. Joyce, in turn, railed against the narrowness of the "chaste and castrated English-speaking world...