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Crack, flop, hit, nuts, pot-committed. Limp, leak, house, draw, gun-shot straight. It’s not spoken word and far from Dr. Seuss; say hello to the parlance of poker. No longer resigned to the backrooms of Western saloons (very smoky, very Maverick, always black and white) or Friday nights with the boys (beer, bets, and babe talk), it seems everyone is speaking the colloquialism of cards...
...total destruction, no trace of the room’s real occupant left among the debris. My clichéd Einstein posters were replaced with haphazardly-hung drawings and finger-paintings. My trophies were relegated to “storage” upstairs. My bookcases were restocked with Dr. Seuss, The Berenstein Bears, and strange dragon-themed books that I can neither understand nor pronounce...
...Princeton, protesters have read aloud from sources including the U.S. Constitution, judicial reports, phone directories, and Dr. Seuss, and have also performed musical acts and comedy routines...
Other dramatic ventures take place in the Underground Theater, located in the Whitman Basement (contact Susan Livingston, slivings@fas.harvard.edu) The Cabot Drama Society also honors Dr. Seuss at an annual Grinch reading...
...Angeles, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for the best-selling Guns, Germs, and Steel, his attempt to understand how Western nations rose to political and technological pre-eminence (the title gives you a pretty good hint). In Collapse, he's a little like the title character in Dr. Seuss's The Lorax: he perches on the smoking ruins of extinct societies and calmly explains how they fell--and why, in almost every case, they never even saw it coming...