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Debating is not a spectacle (as a flea circus or a cock-fight is). It is an exercise in articulative facility and quick wit. It is intended to entertain no one except the participants. The relation you find between lack of spectators and last week's double loss to Yale is beyond the grasp of all natural intellects...
...Manhattan's garment industry, switched to the exterminating business because he thought it offered more chance for public service. In 1946, a new disease, Rickettsialpox, broke out in Queens, and Pomerantz tracked down the carrier-a tiny mite carried by mice. In his honor, a new species of flea, found in the Philippines, has now been named Stivalius pomerantzi...
...fauves) who in 1905 led the vanguard of modern French art. Nowadays, he enjoys bellowing about the hollowness of it all. Paris painting circles last week were chewing over the latest Vlaminck roars, published in the Paris weekly, Arts. Excerpts: ¶ "The capital of France has become an immense flea market. To the connoisseur hoping to find a truly French painting . . . everything new turns out to be old and refurbished . . . Even the fleas are false." ¶ "Mechanical invention reigns in the studios of Montmartre and Montparnasse. Mankind is consumed in making gas explode in cylinders, in making engines turn faster...
...with the elephants in it, her wooden pistol and her little painted top"; a spindly mystery man gibbers in changing dialects about the grave illness of somebody's stricken aunt. Like signposts in limbo, these point everywhere and nowhere. And Party Going's old-fashioned pastime-noodling flea-brained upper-class Britons-is next door to limbo. Writing this novel in the '30s, Author Green wrapped the comedy of a lesser Waugh in the chatter of a lesser Coward. What remains in 1951 is the shell of a satire with about as much yoke as a ping...
...femme fatale, Harry is no fool, and Harry's friend (the nameless narrator of the story) is a retiring writer who wouldn't murder a flea except in print. Moreover, the scene on the Riviera beach is part of a cure, not a calamity...