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Tennessee's Albert Gore, now safe for another six years in the U.S. Senate, speaking for a Michigan congressional candidate: "If the Republican Party were ever reincarnated into a homing pigeon, no matter where it was released in the universe, whether from a jet plane or in outer space, it would go directly home to Wall Street without a flutter of the wing...
Adam Clymer, class orator, termed the Class of 1958 the "overclassified generation," and denounced the current attempts at pigeon-holing today's young people as the beat generation, the silent generation, or the unsilent generation...
...seen both sides, so I know what I'm saying. If you stick here too long you'll be pigeon-holed for life. These guys come over there too, but they're so full of second-hand garbage they can't see what's real if they try. They're the night club crew. Ten minutes in Chartres, an hour in the Louvre, and all day in some sidewalk cafe (where they can see all the other Americans). They're the Lido boys, who travel first class and stay at the Ritz. The double-scotch-with-ice bunch that finds...
Below them on the stage, the cast-J.B. and his family-appears ("Well, that's our pigeon," says Mr. Zuss). As the agony of J.B. unfolds before them, Nickles and Zuss constantly break into the action with a double dialectic-Divine Creator v. Destroyer, human hope (flavored with priggishness) v. despair (flavored with compassion). Sings Nickles...
...small egg, duck egg, goose egg, guinea egg, robin's egg, pigeon egg, quail egg, small pullet's egg, banty egg; walnut, English walnut, hulled walnut, hull of walnut, pecan acorn, unhulled walnut; grain of corn, few grains of maize, bean, navy bean, pea, lentil seed, soup bean; orange, small orange, lemon, small lemon, lime, grapefruit, half grape, melon, dried prune, stuffed olive; dollar, dime, nickel, quarter, half a dollar, dollar and a half; saucer, dinner plate; pencil point, BB shot; third of a baseball, football-sized mass, volley ball; fist, hand, thumb, child's fist...