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...Exaltation of Larks or, The Venereal Game, by James Lipton. N.Y.: Grossman Publishers. Illustrated...
...CANT fight the media. James Lipton wanted to enrich the language. He was disappointed by the failure of slang to make English more exciting. "No sweat and out of sight begin to lose their charm on the fiftieth hearing, and groovy, Ricky, wiggy, unreal, and wild, by pushing out nearly every other adjective in a generation's speech, don't expand the language, they diminish it," he says...
...Lipton went back to fifteenth century manuscripts and dug up terms for collections of birds and beasts and types of men which he wants to bring back into English usage. There is poetry in the sudden realization of a murmuration of starlings or an incredulity of cuckolds, Lipton says. Both of these, and of course an exaltation of larks, have credentials as good as a school of fish, Lipton points...
...gentleman in the good old days would have known all the terms, "lest you should make some blunder at table, so that those who are wiser may have the laugh of you, and we who love you may be ashamed," a character in an Arthur Conan Doyle story says. Lipton threatens us with a simliar charge of ignorance: "The thesis of this book can be summed up very simply: when a group of ravens flaps by, you should, if you want to refer to their presence, say, 'There goes an unkindness of ravens.' Anything else would be wrong...
...Squad (Tuesday, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). This show, also integrated, offers a trio of attractive but unlikely soulmates: a tousle-haired beat from Beverly Hills (Michael Cole), a lithe Afro cat from Watts (Clarence Williams III) and a blonde waif (Peggy Lipton). As undercover agents for the fuzz, they sometimes find that the badge is not their bag. Nonetheless, they manage to balk a blackmail-and-kidnap plot involving a gubernatorial candidate (his daughter is on acid). The dialogue staggers to keep pace. Sample: "Ain't it the mother truth?" Despite the fresh faces-particularly Williams...