Word: rosten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROSTEN...
...Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N from 1937? The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N from 1959? Now is mekink vun book from de odder two. (Only de whole kitten cadoodle is new becawss by Rosten is so much rewridink.) Absolutel...
...American Night Priparatory School for Edults. (Batter it should say school for greenhorns, becawss here is all pipple like me who are not livink lonk in U.S.) Comms again our titcher, Mr. Pockheel, to explain de hoddest pots gremmer, spallink, pernonciation an' de minnink English voids. But Rosten is in every pedge improvink. New fallow students he gives me. (Bloom, Tarnova, Matsoukas, Perez isn't inoff?) New titchers he puts in, new lassons, new voids...
...improvink alvays mekink batter? I esk! I enser−I got de fonny fillink no. Like in my job−cotter mens cloths−seemple is bast. Rosten (here I'm mekink dip bow to mine creator) is dis time cotting too fency. Is mekink too many gegs an' stratching averyt'ing ot too lonk...
...LOOK BOOK. Edited by Leo Rosten. 397 pages. Abrams. $29.95. From its first issue in 1937, which carried a cover picture of Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, to its final number in 1971, depicting the preWatergate Nixon White House, Look chronicled and celebrated a generation of American life. Novelist-Humorist Leo Rosten, who was once chief editorial adviser to Look, has pored through back issues to compile this souvenir album. Articles by Norman Mailer, Harry Truman, Eugene O'Neill and others do not stand the test of age. But the powerful pictures...