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Though a satirist, Emett is a gentle one, with a high regard for human fallibilities and amenities, as well as for cats, birds, butterflies and flowers. What makes the Sussex Merlin all the more remarkable is that he can use a welding torch and glue. With tin, antique doorknobs, hip baths, umbrellas, bicycle parts, lamp shades, stained glass, saucepan lids, Victrola horns, ear trumpets, soup strainers, miles of wicker and wiring, he transforms cartoon fantasies into whispering, whistling, wheezing, whirring, gothic-kinetic machines that work, but mostly play. And mock...
...care, keeping intact the blood vessels feeding that excised section of small intestine. He then led the conduit to a small opening in Humphrey's skin that the surgical team had created just to the right of the navel. There, an external, flat plastic bag was attached (with glue), thus providing a urine reservoir that can be emptied at will...
...Captain Bill Emper, who is the defense's answer to Kubacki. All-Ivy a year ago, Emper is getting national recognition this time around, probably because his leaping profile was captured by an alert photographer in the Dartmouth game and wired across the country. He deserves it; he provides glue-like coverage which he applied to Bob Farnham and Gary Fencik in the Brown and Yale games respectively...
...explained, since they knew the work; "...it is one thing for a man who has never been condemned to show dissatisfaction and another for a man who has already committed crimes. If you drop a plate on the floor...there will always be cracks no matter how carefully you glue it back together again...
...except as platitude; neither, for that matter, may self-congratulatory sectarian "radicals," precious literary "humanists," or other "individualists" coping with the pains of life in a liberal market economy. The lesson of the late 'sixties was that we must surrender these insidious self-conceptions, for without a stronger social glue, without people's sense of themselves as passionate shapers of a common destiny, whole cultures lose the will to live, and all our social scientists' horses and men cannot put Humpty Dumpty together again...