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...name?" And with that he started walking back up the aisle to his seat at the front of the plane, still holding me in tow by my hand, while he repeated his joke to the reporters on either side of him, "The Haaaaarvard CRIMson. Now isn't that a fahn name...
...more often, than Lyndon Johnson. Of late, other citizens of the Great Society have minted a whole new genre of L.B.J. stories-at L.B.J.'s expense. Some are moderately sympathetic, such as the yuk that has one Texan saying to another: "Ah think ouh President is absolutely fahn. He's the first President we evah had who doesn't have an accent." Some are moderately malicious. Vice President Humphrey greets the President: "Morning, Lyndon, how are you?" To which Lyndon replies: "Is that all you ever think of, Hubert?" Mostly however, the current jokes on Johnson...
Brando is supposed to be a Southerner-though his accent sounds as if it was strained through Stanislavsky's mustache. When he first meets Hana-ogi, he believes that "fraternization is a disgrace to the uniform." But he has to admit that she is "a fahn-lookin' woman," and the color line soon becomes as vague in his mind as the meridian of Greenwich. "I will love you, Gruver-san," she murmurs to him one day, "if that is what you desire." That is what he desires, all right, and after much too much Brandoperatic declamation about "what...
...Communist organ Die Rote Fahn published an article prophesying a Nationalist coup, accompanied by terrorism hitherto unknown. The paper advocated killing every fifth Fascist...