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...kill for applause"). He is pleased to encounter again on his native turf that "unsullied sister of Smog," good old English Fog. In a miniautobiography he offers thanks to helpful friends and models (among them: Hardy, Dylan Thomas, Frost, Yeats, Brecht, Kierkegaard, Goethe and Horace). Plato, however, rates a putdown ("I can't imagine anything/ that I would less like to be/ than a disincarnate Spirit"). So do the "nimble technicians" of Detroit ("Dark was the day when Diesel/ conceived his grim engine"), partly because they cannot be bothered to build "what sanity knows we need,/ an odorless...
...Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, even more than the emigration amendment tacked onto the trade bill by Washington Democrat Henry Jackson, that finally prompted the Russians to scuttle the trade agreement. Kissinger, who opposed the credit ceiling, dismissed the sum as "peanuts." For the prideful Kremlin, it was an intolerable putdown...
Finally, I just can't say enough for the zany jokester from the Purple and White band who, while the Harvard band was playing, suddenly bolted across the field trying to distract everyone. What a putdown that...
...part of Women's Equality Day, the National Organization for Women last week staged its annual putdown of male chauvinism: Media Awards. Among the winners: a "Keep Her in Her Place" prize went to Singer Paul Anka for his tune Having My Baby and to Seals and Crofts for their Unborn Child. A "Discarded Older Woman" award was given to Ash Wednesday, the Elizabeth Taylor film of a middle-aged wife who undergoes a body-lift in order to keep her husband. Ad writers for National Airlines won a "Hall of Shame" award for their "Fly Me" campaign...
...Best putdown of non-books: The Nothing Book (Harmony/Crown; $3), with 192 blank pages...