Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scorpion might be a hand-to-mouth operation, but there will be nothing haphazard about it; Kuttner has carefully fashioned his own taste into a consistent philosophy for the magazine. "The styles of tomorrow will supposedly come from today," he explains, with rare lack of hyperbole, searching for words which on paper look like a prepared speech. "I don't want to go into the 'To's with our generation having created no type of synthetic heritage for ourselves...
...confirmed my impressions. The ferocity with which these creatures went after the bait was remarkable. The hands of our Indian guides were covered with scars of old piranha bites. Upon catching one of these tiny demons, the guides immediately had to cut certain nerves about the piranha's mouth to prevent its biting...
Cringe Benefits. Achebe tells his story through the mouth of Odili Samalu, a sprightly rapscallion-part idealist, part young man on the make-whom it would be tempting to call a colored Candide, except that Odili has no innocence at all, only a naiveté that makes a farce both of his convictions and his ambition. He is, in fact, perhaps the most engaging character in fiction about Africa since the hero of Joyce Gary's Mister Johnson, who was factotum to a white colonial official...
According to project officials, there has been pressure from federal officials to make the project residential. "I hope they put their money where their mouth is," Chester Finn '65, assistant project director, said...
...three decades on the air, the Original Amateur Hour has introduced to the American public such virtuosos as a man who hammered out Yankee Doodle by beating his head with a mallet while producing different notes by opening and closing his mouth; another who rendered Swanee River by slapping together two bananas; a little old lady who played hoedown fiddle, slipped out her false teeth, and frantically clacked them up and down in time with the music; and, in 1935, a fat twelve-year-old named Maria Kalogeropoulos...