Word: humbug
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...While Dostoevsky was nonpareil, others came off less fortunately. Conrad, the letter reader learns, was a "distant admiration." Joyce was a doubtful quantity: "I don't know that he's got anything very interesting to say." Henry James emerged as "faintly tinged rose water." Ezra Pound was "humbug." Aldous Huxley, "in spats and grey trousers," proved eminently resistible. The elegant aphorist Logan Pearsall Smith left an impression of "perfect sentences of English prose served up in a muffin dish, over a bright fire, with the parrot on a perch...
...goes on: "But Mr. Kissinger has reportedly decided not to say this in public for now." Kissinger thus "goes public" with what he professes not to want to say publicly. When such is the real world of leaks, much of the official huffing and puffing about the subject is humbug...
Died. William Red Fox, who claimed to be 105, self-styled Sioux Indian chief and controversial man of letters and humbug; in Corpus Christi, Texas. His 1971 book. The Memoirs of Chief Red Fox, told it all-in fact, more than all: in his memoirs, the chief recalled his days acting in vaudeville and the movies, and touring with Buffalo Bill Cody's wild West show. He remembered catching fish with the hooked ribs of field mice and the braves' 1876 victory dance after they had wiped out General Custer. But it was his blow-by-blow account...
...results demonstrated again that New Hampshire voters, however small their number and however untypical their own state might be, managed to pick and choose shrewdly among the candidates. Reported TIME Senior Correspondent John Steele: "The candidates were talking about serious issues with considerable forthrightness and a minimum of humbug," while the voters were "listening rather closely, asking serious questions and getting serious answers." Nevertheless, the issues were not defined as clearly as they will be in the shakedown process of later primaries. Boston Bureau Chief Sandra Burton saw the nation's "quirkiest, contrariest and most stubbornly individualistic voters" making...
...Year? Woman of the Year? Bah, humbug! It's Creature of the Year-the Great White Shark...