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Professor Tracy gives many examples of Savage's poetry in The Artificial Bastard, and his well reasoned interpretations of such passages show the stages of his subject's mind. In the Wanderer, Savage imagines himself a divinely inspired poet. The Bastard glorifies his illegitimate birth. Much in the same vein as Edmund in King Lear, he cries," Blest be the Bastard's birth! He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; no tenth transmitter of a foolish face...
...taste. Mystery fans will probably find "The White Rabbit Caper" most to their liking. Out Spading Spade, it begins, "Fred Fox was pouring himself a slug of rye when he door of his office opened and in hopped old Mrs. Rabbit . . ." One of the choicest in the autobiographical vein is a little item called "There's a Time for Flags, or (Notes of a man who bought a curious Christmas gift)." The Thurber Diaries are like none other: "Dec. 15--Yesterday morning at eleven o'clock I bought an American flag, five feet by three, and a white flagpole, eighteen...
...powerful ("The horn you blow doesn't get any louder as you get older"); his argument confident without being arrogant. Other lawyers may try to put across a dozen ideas in a case. Davis prefers to narrow the issue to its lifeline: "Always go for the jugular vein...
Undergraduates have signed up to give 3,100 pints of blood this week to the Red Cross. The vein tapping will be from 11:45 to 4:45 today in Memorial Hall, and the program will continue each day this week...
...Glitter Gulch, the approach to the tourist is straightforward. The Golden Nugget, a large gambling house in the heart of the Gulch, is the richest vein in the big rock candy mountain of Las Vegas. It offers no entertainment, just a multitude of ways to gamble, from wheels of fortune and penny slots to big-time poker games in the back rooms. In Paradise (A or B), the atmosphere is more subtle: air conditioning, deckle-edged swimming pools (with extravagant poolside displays of bathing beauties), fine food at fair prices, top entertainment, well-irrigated golf courses. But all are mere...