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Essayist Charles Lamb wrote: "A pun is a noble thing per se. It fills the mind; it is as perfect as a sonnet, better." Of course, there is another quotation: "Anything awful makes me laugh." And that's Lamb...
...generations and sometimes centuries, a kind of prison. It is a prison whose door stands open a crack, says Lewis, but it is also one from which the inmates do not readily escape: "It is much more difficult to eliminate the culture of poverty than to eliminate poverty per se...
...only a grotesquely distorted version remains, with its talk about stamp collecting as anal and piano playing as masturbatory. "That belongs to an earlier period," says Critic Alfred Kazin. "By now, people know that the passions are real but not that readily symbolized. There is very little philosophy per se in this country, and Americans have been left high and dry by the evaporation of religion, but in talk about psychoanalysis there is a kind of authentic quest. It's an attempt to get back into philosophy in a roundabout...
...occasion seemed to be all Tanya's when what to the wandering eye should appear but an ex-stripper named Rita Renoir in an openwork crocheted gown under which she wore only a nostalgic G string. Worse yet, Princess Virginie-CarolineThérèse-Pancracie-Galdine von Furstenburg, known to her friends as Ira, was in Venice in her new guise as actress. That threw Tanya into a snit. Ira, she complained, was "taking work away from girls who need it." Tanya finally called a press conference to explain everything, but she called it for the same hour...
Sealed Destiny. Los Angeles is probably the fastest-growing city in the history of the world. No European laid eyes on it until 1769, when an expedition of Spanish explorers came upon an Indian village called Yang-na and renamed the site Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles-Our Lady Queen of the Angels. Twelve years later, the area was settled by 44 low-caste peons (including ten Negroes) from Mexico. The pueblo came under American occupation in 1846, was incorporated (pop. 1,610) in 1850-the same year that California received statehood...