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...very prosaic guy," Booth said, and in spite of his reputation as a radical there seemed a note of truth in his snicker. To prove his point, Booth reported that he attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D. C., then went to Swarthmore College where he majored in Political Science, worked in the student government, and wrote for The Phoenix, the college newspaper. But this was only a temporary phase, he assured...
Liturgy & Prayer. If Eliot spoke for youth's despairs ("I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,/And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,/And in short, I was afraid"), he apparently scarcely knew its exhilarations. Though he was born in St. Louis, the son of a wholesale grocer, his roots ran back to New England and the upright Unitarianism of his clergyman grandfather. At Harvard, he dabbled in Sanskrit and Oriental religions, wrote his dissertation on the philosophy of F. H. Bradley. Prufrock, that lament of the aging, was published...
...audience may justly snicker a bit when this climactic encounter is interrupted by a uniformed station attendant who sings: "Shall I fill it up, Madame? Super or standard?" The sound of Muzak lyricism in the score is for the most part standard. There are no songs as such, but the script, in rhyme translated by prosaic subtitles, weaves themes of love and despair into insistent patter music that accompanies every utterance from "Je suis enceinte, Maman" to "pass the sugar...
...Groza, the dean of place kickers and top point scorer (with 1,404) in football history. At 40, Groza cuts a comical figure as he waddles onto the field -belly hanging over the waist of his practically padless pants. But the players don't snicker. A proud perfectionist who boots 30 or more field goals a day in practice, Groza hit on 15 out of 23 field goals last year...
...even while pushing Doctor No into the radioactive heavy water. Now that streak of sadistic cruelty which endeared the written Bond to all Harvard Walter Mittys appears in all its glory. We grin as the movie Bond slams the hood of a truck on one villain's hand. We snicker as he slaps luscious Daniela Bianchi around a compartment on the Orient Express. We cheer as he dumps a non-swimmer into the Adriatic with the valediction "This just isn't your...