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...heritage of great achievement." ¶ Attended the yearly dinner of the White House Correspondents Association, grinned unfalteringly through a skit burlesquing his golf ("Be thankful he ain't a bowler"), a prolonged wink from Songstress Ethel Merman (I Get a Kick Out of You), a running patter of Comedian Bob Hope. Some Hope-isms: "It is a great pleasure to be here, entertaining our President. Of course, I had to sell all my Paramount stock before I could go on ... We were supposed to have smoked tongue for dinner tonight, but Senator Morse was not available . . . I see Senator...
...only two cups of milk daily, the second laced with honey. Yet somehow he finds the energy to walk a steady ten to 20 miles a day. When he is on the road, he and his disciples get up in some sleeping village at 3 a.m. There is a patter of handclaps, a tinkling bell, the flash of a kerosene lantern, the shuffling of sandals in the dust, and the little group departs for the next village, singing hymns. When he is not on the road, Vinoba gets up an hour later and meditates for an hour...
...Lewis might have reached the top as a straight musician without his top hat, cane and patter. His free-riding clarinet was imitated by the young Benny Goodman, and his band gave asylum to such latter-day jazz greats as Muggsy Spanier, Jimmy Dorsey and George Brunis. His recording of St. Louis Blues sent hepcats of the '20s as far out of this world as people got in those days. But Ted was too much of a showman to stick to music. Today it is not the Lewis clarinet that people come for, but the sleepy smile...
Like all Adlerians, Dreikurs & Co. brush past the Freudian patter of hostility and rejection, Oedipus and Narcissus, and drive straight for the child's "private logic." Their argument: no matter how wacky the child's actions may seem to an adult, they are logical to the child if it is recognized that his own picture of the world around him governs his reactions. So the trick is to find out how he sees the world, how this makes him do what he does, and help him to feel secure without setting the rest of the family on edge...
...place. As an extra dividend, the book is clearly intended for reading as an oblique comment on the British character, and especially on the modern British bureaucracy. Author Duggan seems to suggest that, given a bowler and bumbershoot to go with his tidy, official face, Felix might patter along Downing Street without winning a second glance...