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PASSIONS AND PREJUDICES: OR, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE PEOPLE by Leo Rosten McGraw-Hill; 188 pages...
...book with the subtitle Some of My Best Friends Are People should be flung across the room. The reader is urged to employ this method of criticism with the volume at hand, a collection of Leo Rosten's light essays. Book flinging improves the temper of the flinger, and in this case it improves the book as well. Passions and Prejudices, when it is retrieved and smoothed out, gets down to business and stops apologizing for its intelligence...
...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...