Word: nash
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Richard E. Nash ’92-’93 sometimes pretends to be a Yalie...
...eventually served as spiritual adviser to such celebrities as Carole King, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern. Satchidananda founded a number of ashrams, including Yogaville in Virginia, where he made his home. At Woodstock he shared the stage with rock luminaries Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young...
...time I put Nash aside for Ernie Kovacs, Harvey Kurtzman, Lenny Bruce and the more aggressive comic geniuses of that decade, For I had determined that wit needed to explode, not simmer, and that a good joke was one so convulsively head-turning that it sent you to the hospital for swiveling-neck aid, And that it was harder to be funny than to be droll, as it is harder to create a joke than a platitude, Since a comedian requires ingenuity, while a humorist can coast on a querulous attitude. As the '50s ceded...
...work hasn't changed; it's I who am different. I'm older, much older, my joints much stifferent. The Nash I grew out of, I've grown into again. He seems much the wisest of the funny old men: Not grouchy but gracious, not silly - sagacious, Not restless but patious in all the right placious, Indulgent observer of each human foible, Like the lady whose birthday is hardly enjoible...
...hope springs eternal, so does Nash's verse on fresh turf, For it is all over the Internet, in blithe disregard of copyright law, for any kid today to surf. A generation of websters can splash In his odes to the hippopotamus and the socialite and good dogs and diaper rash. Today's 10-year-olds can discover for themselves my long-ago pash: To put aside the weeping and gnashing of teeth and instead luxuriate in the reaping and teething of Nash...