Word: punch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALEXANDER PORTNOY complained that he was living in the middle of a Jewish joke--the Jewish joke of his whole life, as told to his shrink Dr. Spielvogel. That joke ended with Spielvogel supplying the punch line: "And now vee may perhaps to begin...
...Eroica, "appears to get the message: musical forms may reveal divine essences, while his own kinetic life has been shaped by a gargantuan but finite will, whose only form was eventually a form of selfdelusion. Napoleon Symphony is, in some sense, an entertaining and elaborate joke. What the punch line comes down to is the simple fact that even Napoleon thought he was Napoleon...
BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS is an attractive volume. Many skillful illustrations--the original woodcuts--snare one in a tangle of detail. And the stories reveal the idiosyncracies of their authors more than any standard literary styles in fairy tales. John Ruskin moralizes, while Mark Lemon, the first editor of Punch, comes across very romantically for a man who earned his living by a pointed...
...suggest that in order to be more competitive--to beat the colleges at their own game, we've got to put more punch back in the boats," Davidson says. "We need a gimmick--motors. That's it-we will put motors on every shell. That oughta please those defense weary fans...
Harvard bestowed a crown of thorns on the Holy Cross baseball team yesterday, pounding out nine hits off four Crusader pitchers and swiping five bases en route to an 8-5 come-from-behind victory. Ric LaCivita and Leigh Hogan provided the offensive punch, knocking in single runs with three and two hits respectively...