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...lines anticipating environmental concerns, Nash delivered his classic put-down of Joyce Kilmer's gushy "Trees...
...delight, and he was undoubted master of the unique form that he devised: the line that runs on and on, metric foot after metric foot, only to snap to an end with an outrageously contrived rhyme that usually manages to contain a real groaner of a pun. When Ogden Nash died of heart failure last week at 68 in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, he left an affectionate and inventive verbal legacy. Said his friend and editor Ned Bradford of Little, Brown: "He reflected all the joys and vexations of American life in those resigned but cheerful verses...
...quintessential Nash appears in "One Man's Opiate," published late last year in The New Yorker. In it, he brings off an excruciating knock-knock joke in French-en route to his conclusion about the uses of laughter in the gloomy present: "In this age penumbral,/Let the timbrel resound in the tumbrel...
...have no private life and no personality," Nash once joked. In fact, he was a quiet and often private man, even though he spent much of his career on the lecture circuit. He would recite his marvelously serpentine and breathlessly amuck alexandrines like a tenor testing the limit of his lungs, terminating at last in a long-awaited gong of rhyme. His versifications made the bespectacled and gamesomely civilized poet something of a celebrity. His accent ("clam chowder of the East Coast-New England with a little Savannah at odd moments") was sometimes heard on radio's "Information, Please...
...curtain raiser, fluttery Karen Nash (Maureen Stapleton) books a suite, trying to rekindle the lust hopes of her 23-year-old marriage. But saturnine Sam Nash proves as remote as room service. The reason, Karen correctly deduces, is Sam's office fixture, a Miss McCormack. It is not only the affair that grieves the wronged wife, it is the businessman's lack of enterprise. "Everyone cheats with their secretaries," she wails. "I expected something better from my husband!" But beneath the holy acrimony are wounding truths. Successful Sam is no longer struggling; he wants the arriv...