Word: flea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents who stand by helplessly while their son switches his ambitions from pharmacy to footlights. By contrast, Jose Ferrer and Elaine May seem almost drawn from life as the flamboyant impresario of a pass-the-hat theatrical workshop and his daffy Duse of a daughter. Their world of raucous flea-bitten theatrics seems, oddly enough, more wholesome than Mom's chicken soup...
...Kill a Flea...
...been curing hiccups [June 2] in the schoolroom by frightening the sufferer. I suppose a visit to the operating table, or the introduction of a catheter, is as good for frightening the sufferer as is the bang of a desk lid. But why such sledgehammer methods to kill a flea of a complaint...
...women, of whom about 60 (most with the best of family connections, several the daughters of diplomats) work full time. H.I.'s services include elegant rubbernecking tours of Paris (with precisely informed history lectures from the young ladies), shopping excursions that range from a Dior boutique to the Flea Market, as well as even more individualized aid, such as locating a race horse for two Germans to buy, arranging a female golfing partner for a Taiwan businessman, finding a secretary who can take shorthand in Turkish, and accompanying one client to the infamous Olympia Press bookstore, where he browsed...
...indignant to be killed by such a person as Prince Henry, who was so much his inferior." Still more cryptic is what Blake called in his sketchbook a "Spiritual Communication." Possibly Blake intended it to be a recording of a conversation he had with the ghost of a flea (he sketched several of these: they look rather like Jiminy Cricket). The "communication" reads: "Can you think I can endure to be considered as a vapour arising from your food? I will leave you if you doubt I am of no greater importance than a butterfly...