Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Talk. The first, which they adapted from the American Negro and learned during the civil rights marches, is the technique of the elaborate lie, the phony story that is aimed at gulling the listener and shaming him without his knowing it. The Gross-Out -or "garbage mouth"-is a blunter weapon. A group of young people in a club dominated by adults will suddenly begin chanting four-letter words, louder and filthier all the time, until they have completely disrupted the scene...
...high points is a wickedly malicious monologue on the art of olive-stuffing, in which he reduces the mystique of bullfighting to the noble, tragic grandeur of a pimento impaled on a cocktail pick. On those exceedingly rare occasions that Donald Swann opens his mouth, he can be equally and extravagantly nutty-as when he remarks on infant care: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow." Inevitably, a few eggs are laid in the making of a comic omelet, but Flanders and Swann scramble their humor with...
Robert Goheen, president of Princeton University, asks Vassar to consider merging with Princeton instead of Yale. "Gosh, I'm flabbergasted--I just don't know what to say," answers Alan Simpson, President of Vassar. Attorney Mark Lane dies of hoof-in-mouth disease. His last words: "...Patrick Nugent ... Texas School Book Depository...
Many Indian women think it is their duty to bear male heirs in order to please their husbands-and are thus puzzled by the slogan. Poor outcastes think of every new baby not as another mouth to feed but as a potential breadwinner for the family. Moslem mullahs (religious teachers) will not urge their believers to practice birth control for fear that the Hindus will go on proliferating and widen their population and political advantage...
Fitting at 3 a.m. English tailor-made suits carry no labels, and the firms themselves seldom, if ever, advertise, prefer to prosper by word of mouth. The remark, "My London tailor's in town," quietly passed along among friends, seems to work wonders. J. C. Wells Ltd. sent its first traveling man to the U.S. in 1927 on a "prestige visit," was surprised when he came back with 100 orders; this year Wells's man, A.S. Richardson, brought back 1,000 orders, an increase of 200 over five years ago. Henry Poole & Co. has American family accounts going...