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...holding an empty glass when I began to read Fangs A Lot [April 8]. I had so much pun galloping through your pheasantries that my crocodile tears fell so fast I thought I needed an eye-viper. It gladdened my hart to see the tears had fallen into the glass. Instantly I addered a mastiff slug of raw animal spirits, with ice-"crocs on the rocks"-thrush snaking my thirst in a swallow. Delicious. Pity I had no horse d'oeuvre. Such a stag party may never be held again. On the otter hand, I wonder wether the savoir...
...noises." Such a reaction betrays a tin ear and a wooden sense of humor, for the dream songs may be one of the more successful experiments with wit in the language. The poem, taken as the whole it will someday be, acts on the imagination the way any good pun does, writ large. On the crudest level there is something cardinally and delightfully sylleptic about the fact that Henry can be both Henry House and Pussycat, Mr. Bones, the professor and the jazzman. What results is a comedy of tone. Humor depends on the way things are said. "My psychiatrist...
Unmentionable Word. His gamble paid off. In the resulting battle, the enemy lost four irreplaceable carriers and the momentum that had propelled him from victory to victory. For the Japanese, Midway became an unmentionable word. Nimitz indulged himself in a rare pun: "Perhaps we will be forgiven if we claim that we are about midway to our objective." Though more than three years of hard, bitter fighting remained, that single, three-day battle marked the turning point of the Pacific war, the beginning of the end of Japanese ambitions...
...stevedore who had walked out on his family the year before, and ended with a tearful reconciliation and some moralistic repentance by Pop. Insight's producer, Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser, charges that much religious programming is marred by "superficial ideology," "shallow psychology," and-he cannot resist the pun-excessive reliance on the deus ex machina...
...summarized, because he shuns theories and abstract jargon, and presents his findings in concrete, personal cases. His goal in writing is to deal directly with the "worries, fears, and loves of individual people." Like Conrad, Agee, and Orwell, he wants to bring the crushed people to life -- a significant pun, because Coles means it both as a writer and as a doctor: to make them "come alive" for the reader, and to make them live. His approach to psvchiatric chiatric problems ties in with his literary style. He shies away from the contemporary eagerness for 'explanation' by categories, and attempts...