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The early church fathers would have examined Adman Ogilvy carefully for horns and a cloven hoof if they had heard his contemptuous put-down of patience, a paramount Christian virtue. St. Paul rated it a "fruit of the spirit" and St. Augustine called it "the companion of wisdom." Saints had...
Brown's freshman cross-country team handed the Yardling runners their second straight defeat with a 23-32 put-down in Franklin Park yesterday.
The best of Wolfe's reporting in Kandy-Kolored might well be required reading in courses with names like American Studies: his examination of Stock-Car Racer Junior Johnson as the American Hero, for example; his portrait of a beautiful, rich, frustrated Manhattan divorcee; his hilarious put-down of...
THIS episode from Peanuts shows how Charlie Brown once dared to dream of fame-and was, inevitably, squelched by a woman. That was 14 years ago, soon after the comic strip first appeared. This week our editors at last have news for Patty and all the other put-down artists...
Since much of the laughter excited by Pussycat is cruel, put-down humor, the why of its comic impact is almost more interesting than the how of it. Nobody much believes in love any more; Broadway has not seen an old-fashioned nonmusical love story in years. This is intimately...