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...breezy, anecdotal saga is no Portnoy, and it's easy to forget that any complaint was ever made, because the irony is irony with an option -- it is camp in the best sense, convincing enough to let the reader drop the bemused distance at will. The storyteller is a "fella name a' Smith; first name a' Word." Word Smith is a sagacious, grizzled and altogether senile old sportswriter with a penchant for alliteration and a lively obsession for the American idiomatic phrase. In the heyday of baseball -- the twenties, the thirties, the forties -- Smitty had written a column entitled...
...Cravin. "Contrary to some speakers, Tip never let the House get out of control. He believed in the system: everyone follows the rules. He wanted good attendance records from all members." He even locked the doors during important roll calls to, as O'Neill put it, "keep a, fella from taking a walk." "As strict as he was, he displayed a good sense of humor from the chair but never went out of his way to tell jokes," Cravin said...
...catch the first cab I see; it is the one that nearly hit me coming our of the Garden onto Causeway St. The cab driver is a trifle taken back, but once he knows where I've come from, he warms up considerably. "What about that Jagger fella? Y'know I usta get sing in a band, a ways back. Usta get laid twenty times a night." The proprietors of the flowers shop are helpful. Particularly when it becomes apparent that six or eight dozen flowers wouldn't be nearly enough. I decide to spend the whole thirty dollars...
WHEN THE LOEB decided to change its policy and offer musicals, there were no half measures about it. Last fall's Most Happy Fella was an ambitious start which met with great success. The current Leverett Opera Society's production of Don Giovanni has done as well, but in different ways. In the meantime, the Harvard Arts Festival has overloaded the Loeb's front-office capacities to the point that even getting tickets has become an ordeal...
...least 160 had no formal schooling. Early returns counted last week showed that Papua New Guineans had decided to take on self-government-or so it seemed. The conservative, white-dominated United Party, which had sent sound trucks through the main towns with the message in pidgin "My fella vote Unided Pati, yu fella vote Unided Pati," lost some seats it had held in the last Assembly, and emerged without a majority. The Pangu Pati (acrophonetic pidgin for Papua New Guinea Party), which draws its strength from the radical young black elite of the coastal cities and favors immediate self...