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...tribute to Ogden Nash's verse Requires a little life portrait of the man - what Time editors call bio-perse. Nash was the maternal grandson of a noted Louisville, Ky., feminist Who educated his own daughters and had them apply to Harvard using only their first initials on the applications and had the pleasure of seeing them accepted, then the pain of seeing them rejected for their sex, because at the time Harvard admitted no female, even if she was the world's leading Egyptian authority or Saudi scholar or Yemenist. Frederic Ogden Nash was born on August...
...gawker, But I also read the magazines that came through our mail slot, like Time, Reader's Digest, the Saturday Evening Post and, yes, The New Yawker. I enjoyed the humor in these magazines more than any child of my acquaintance, And of all the humorists, Ogden Nash was the one who in my little reliquary acquired patron-saintance. Soon my Nashophilia had so far ripened That I plopped down 35 cents of my hard-begged weekly stipend And bought "The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash," for its was worth all that money To possess a collection of Nash...
...Actually I wouldn't quote it, I'd declaim it as mine, as if I was not a verse thief or poem-forgia. I also watched Nash on TV, where with Perelman, George S. Kaufman and Fred Allen he formed an informal group of sour-faced humorists who drawled cunning sarcasm So lacerating that anyone on the receiving end would collapse as if thrown down a Yellowstone National Park chasm. Without rising from behind the panel, they showed the world their rumps And defined the '50s wit as a fellow with a tone somewhere between gramps and grumps. Years later...
...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...