Word: piebald
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...marvelous sort of flapdoodle that does not fit into any category that book-jacket haikuists can think of. The tall stories that Faulkner wrote when his mood was bourbon-light are in the same family; The Reivers bears a resemblance to Fools' Parade. Dark violence and piebald absurdity share an uncertain border, and now and then some mythmaker on his day off, like Grubb, manages to write within this uncertainty. A fine book, written for the hell of it, which is a splendid reason...
London's stately Albert Hall has long been a choice working ground for the piebald bevy of street musicians, sing ers and dancers known as buskers. Let a ticket line form on the sidewalk out side and the buskers were there to clown, sing and fiddle, while their bottlers (assistants) passed the hat for coppers and shillings like Dickensian urchins in the night. Last week there were no buskers on the sidewalk. Instead, 40 of them were inside giving the concert of their lives. And no one had to pass a hat: more than 3,700 persons paid...
...Jersey Supreme Court, too, will try to second-guess the nation's highest court. Last week it heard oral arguments in an appeal of a 1964 lower court ban of Fanny Hill.* As he picked his way among the piebald pronunciamentos of the U.S. Supreme Court, New Jersey Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub plaintively confessed, "I don't know what they mean...
...stock that Dad is sporting an arm in a sling as a result of his third polo spill in 13 months. His only daughter put on a J.G.S. (school slang for jolly good show) representing her school, Benenden, for the first time at a local meet. She took a piebald named Jester over the jumps to win a red rosette (winning team) in the combined competition, picked up yellow (tie third) in junior dressage...
Spare the Schmalz! Eisenhower's last presidential addresses-his State of the Union message and his televised farewell to the nation-drew a piebald response. The Denver Post, though unmoved by the State of the Union message ("moral, but it did not inspire"), was stirred by the valedictory speech to historical comparisons: "The parting messages of Dwight Eisenhower and George Washington had this in common-an essentially conservative tone, one of dignity and restraint...