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When New York City officials urged housewives to buy substitutes, they found flounder up 10? a pound, salmon up 8?, eggs up 2?. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale price index of 31 foods jumped 3% during the week to an alltime high of $7.36. The way things were going, some economists predicted that by year's end the U.S. would find its cost of living up another...
When the selections are taken as individual units, they flounder-the poetry worst of all. Most of the British poets here anthologized seem cowed by the fashions of up-to-the-minute taste. Either they are still unrecovered from their burns from the Auden-Spender firecracker of the '30s (Marx, Freud, Oxford, pathos and wisecracks), or they have slumped into a pale, desiccated romanticism ("Sleep, my love, now love is over. . . . Tender about you, my arms will cover...
...Princess & Curdie and other children's fairy tales. In the introduction to his recent anthology of Macdonald's work (TIME, June 2), Lewis confesses the importance of that day's purchase: "I had already been waist-deep in Romanticism; and likely enough, at any moment, to flounder into its darker and more evil forms, slithering down the steep descent that leads from the love of strangeness to that of eccentricity and thence to that of perversity. Now Phantasies was romantic enough in all conscience; but there was a difference. . . . What it actually...
...Flat Voice!" Before he even got on the air, the couple of months became seven. When he did, it was by a flounder. An unwary adman, carrying an Allen audition record to the president of a corn products company, took the costly economy of going by Manhattan subway. On the way. the portable record-player got banged up. All the sponsor could hear was Allen's rasp. "Get me that man with the flat voice!" he ordered...
...flat-as-a-flounder moccasins and sandals affected by adolescent girls are just as bad as the high heels worn by their ex-flapper mothers. Mayo Clinic's Dr. Earl C. Elkins warned the jitterbugs that if they keep on wearing the flat flats, their arches will eventually pancake and they'll have "sled runners for feet...