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∙ ON INTERIOR DECORATION: "Only the mindless house is dull. When the mode calls for colonial they are ruffled and cobbler-benched within an inch of their lives. When the vogue stipulates wall-to-wall carpeting, everything, including stairways, smothers ankle-deep in wool. The whole" effect of such interiors...
(Mercury). The Smothers Brothers sing straight and well on occasion, but their mission in life is their antic spoofing of the folk scene, which appeals especially to teenagers. Their latest is not as funny as Think Ethnic!, where they expounded their own crazy version of John Henry and sang: "Black...
"It's just one of those silly things," says New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, who started keeping licorice in his Capitol desk years ago to sweeten up dull debates. "I would give Wayne Morse some. Then Alan Bible would look over and say, 'What are you...
The book also offers a few poems interesting in themselves, a couple of rousing drinking songs, some Rabelaisian belly laughs, and one or two tenderly erotic lyrics. Otherwise the reader who is not a hard-core enthusiast will find the collection disappointing. The scholarly apparatus smothers the poems. What is...
Few can explain the extraordinary King mystique. Yet he has an indescribable capacity for empathy that is the touchstone of leadership. By deed and by preachment, he has stirred in his people a Christian forbearance that nourishes hope and smothers injustice. Says Atlanta's Negro Minister Ralph D. Abernathy...