Word: excerpted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nincompoop waiters for whom a dog, a banana peel, three whipped-cream cakes, and a lady in a sliding tiara add up to disaster. The theme of tit-for-tat destruction, a comedy cliche raised to classic stature by Laurel and Hardy, is the starting point for an excerpt from their pie-in-the-face epic Battle of the Century. Whether dangling from the girders of an unfinished skyscraper, flattening a bungalow as they build it, or luring a horse onto a grand piano, they are pluperfect clowns...
While printing presses ran day and night to reprint the full document in various editions, our job was different: we went to work to excerpt the report, cull its most significant detail, and summarize its meaning in a special nine-page section...
Stephen Dell and Mary Seager will present an excerpt from a novel and short stories, and Sidney Goldfarb will read some new poems, in the Lamont Forum Room this afternoon...
...Word of Caution. On crossexamination, Waller brought out Beckwith's militant segregationist sentiments. Beckwith admitted writing a letter to a Jackson newspaper in which he said: "I shall bend every effort to rid the U.S. of integrationists, whoever and wherever they may be." As Waller read the excerpt, Beckwith leaned forward to caution him solicitously: "I want you to understand; and where there is humor intended, I want you to laugh and smile; and where it is serious, I want you to be serious...
...excerpt from a novel, Horowitz accomplishes the difficult job of having a character inside the story relate another story; a slight stiffness of style hardly detracts from the chapter's interest. Hillman displays a flair for style with his first sentence: "Jo swept in with a querulous wind, she all flushed and gasping, it cold." Donald Bloch's "Metasis," although hard to follow, is eminently readable...