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...Sullivan, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and H. Allen Smith. Yet as Humorist Russell Baker observes, Perelman's work was not typically American: "His writing had a certain English fineness in it. There is a love of language and an extensive vocabulary. He is hard to type. He is sui gen eris. I plagiarize a lot but I could not steal anything from him. The best you could do is a third-rate imitation and anyone could spot...
...commandant Reid seems numb to the entire situation. The pale blue walls in his airconditioned office near the camp's entrance are peeling and Reid has been working at Sham Sui Po long enough to know his routine. He takes a long puff on the first of a string of cigarettes and leans back to describe the camp. His voice is as disconnected from what it is saying to you as the camp is from the swankiness and luxury of the Peninsula Hotel--a 15 minute ride away...
...Sui Generis. The incident should awaken consumers to an underappreciated fact of auto-buying life: though manufacturers try hard to tout each car model as unique, autos are actually highly standardized products with many interchangeable parts. Ford and Lincoln cars made by Ford Motor Co. share the same engines, as do Dodge, Plymouth and Chrysler cars made by Chrysler Corp. Other automakers have escaped so far the trouble GM has landed in because their advertising has not given consumers quite as strong an impression that each car is sui generis as GM's ads have...
...their composers' works for orchestra or piano, these string quartets are charmers. The first is as spirited and melodic as one would expect from Mendelssohn. The second is imbued with the blend of impulsiveness and poetic fancy that Schumann alone seemed to possess. The superlative interpretations by the sui generis Budapest Quartet come from tapes of live performances at the Library of Congress in 1959 and 1961 and are released here for the first time...
...DEWITT has nothing against sentimentality, sui generis, you know. Some of our best friends have sentiments. Even we have been known to harbor a kindly, uncritical pang from time to time. We have also taken trips. And although these voyages never have precisely coincided with that state of spiritual soupiness to which we were just referring, it is conceivable that Dewitt might one day embark on a sentimental journey...