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...Fine Art of Literary Mayhem, by Myrick Land. Carlyle was not feuding with Emerson when he called him "a hoary-headed and toothless baboon," but most of the other literary figures in this book are-and their pejorative language is choice...
...than most but considerably tamer than some-as this lucid and witty guide to literary feuding demonstrates. The casual insult. Author Land points out, is not enough to constitute a feud. Carlyle, for instance, was not feuding with Emerson when he referred to him as "a hoary-headed and toothless baboon," or with Swinburne when he refused to meet him on the ground that he did not want to know a man who was "sitting in a sewer and adding to it." Nor was Truman Capote seriously feuding when he remarked of Jack Kerouac's work: "That...
When the football players at Brigham Young University, a big Mormon school in Provo, Utah, huddle before the game, they do not pray for victory. "We just pray," says a player wryly, "that we'll come out in one piece." For 21 seasons, the toothless Cougars were the pussycats of the Skyline Conference, winning only 69 of 203 games against such middling opposition as Wyoming, Montana, Utah State. B.Y.U. now belongs to the new Western Athletic Conference, and with only three victories in nine games, it is still the weakling of its league. But this season, the Cougars have...
...counterfeit comes to a toothless loan shark, a loudmouthed used-car salesman ("The all-time jerk-he belongs in the National Bureau of Standards") and a fatcat brothelkeeper whose place of business has been shut down by the police. "Private enterprise," the pimp complains indignantly, "is being stifled." The salesman, a man with $20-$20 vision, sees what might be called a gulden opportunity for creative capitalism: to compete with the Dutch government in the production of currency...
...Emergency Committee for public schools, "and now that it's no longer politically useful, he's not going to carry their banner." Says former Citizens Council President Dr. Malcolm Taylor: "He turned his back on greatness. No longer will we thrill to the tirades of a toothless tiger. We must look elsewhere for leadership...