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Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point-he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases- "It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand: "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists-at times indeed, approaching the ludicrous...
...seems entirely possible that so beautiful a machine might reach the moon. But with sunrise and the reappearance of the normal landscape, doubt intrudes; eventually, at a distance of three miles, the rocket seems to shrink in size and magic until it becomes an act of almost Promethean gall to aim it at the heavens...
Valley was a pharmacological and gynecological nightmare. Reader interest, soaring along on a series of drug ingestions, couplings and nervous breakdowns, finally hit an apogee with breast cancer. Love Machine lacks Valley's primitive vigor but equals its obsession with pathology: leukemia, gall-bladder trouble, heart disease, neurasthenia and nymphomania play important roles. One man is terrified of losing his genitalia; another surrenders them gladly in order to become a woman. The central character, a power-mad television executive with a superhuman capacity for vodka and coitus, is mysteriously incapable of love and marriage. The explanation is only...
...them, and then falsely telling caseworkers he had never received them so that he could get replacements worth $222. Technically, the charges against Davis are grand and petty larceny, but District Attorney Burton Roberts found Davis' real crime a bit different. "If there were a crime of chutzpah [gall]" he said, "this man would be charged with it in the first degree...
...letter to Kiesinger, written to him just before he took office, is reprinted in this book. In a later speech, Grass notes that Kiesinger never answered the letter. He damns Kiesinger not so much for his membership in the Nazi party from 1933 to the end, but for his gall in then, without any reference to his past, becoming leader of the West German Republic, which is supposedly trying to live down the past...