Word: lemurs
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...glorious lines of puns about what happened "since the day Nkrumah was ostrichized." The day after the story appeared, some of us had second thoughts; but to make matters worse, TIME readers respunded in kine: "Next time some anteloper in Ghana snake in and monkey around with the gnus, lemur know...
...Wallaby damned! Next time some anteloper is Ghana snake in and monkey around with the gnus, lemur know ahead. I roared so, the cubs in our pride were all apeset. Father said: "How horribull, she's been pythoned! Alligator a drink-you kids call the dogtor and giraffter that go bison aspirin. We'll keep her lion down hunter the table and cassowary ibis on the rest of TIME." That'll rabbit...
These jokes come out as segments of nervous, elliptical stories. The man who tells them is a flatheaded, redheaded lemur with closely bitten fingernails and a sports jacket. Like Jack Paars ghostly Jack Douglas, Allen is a gag writer turned stand-up comic. He even resembles Douglas in a miniature way, with bulging eyes framed by heavy black-rimmed glasses. In fact, since he is so dehydrated that he probably weighs what the charts say he ought to, he gives the impression that if he were dropped into a bowl of water he would turn into Douglas himself...
Pets? Poet Gavin Maxwell, grandson of famed Natural Historian Sir Herbert Maxwell, has investigated them all: a lemur, a bush baby, a wildcat, a rail, five wild geese, a dozen tropical birds, a goat that jumped on the kitchen table, and a cow that strolled upstairs one day and almost gave birth on the landing. Otters, he proclaims in this lyric celebration of the beast he loved the best and of the wild Scottish coast they romped along together, are the greatest...
...critic called the pageant the paltry sum of "lemur-like witches from a melo drama, fur-clad shepherds from an amateur little theater, and small children from a club Christmas pageant." But other German critics found Orff's work magical, "full of simple poetry and totally pious...