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Things were different at the beginning of the 19th century. The eventual winner of the class war, the junior executive, had not even been invented. The upper classes of England, alarmed at Jacobin rumblings from France, put down the undeserving poor with vigor. And one of the battlefields on which they did so, in the view of Author Moers, was that of dress. Leading a languid but deadly charge for the aristocracy was a new and resplendent creature, the dandy (whom the author distinguishes from the mere fop by the social forces that created him). Thomas Carlyle wrote unsympathetically that...
Charlestonese is not an intelligible distortion of the American language in the sense that the dialects of Boston, Brooklyn and Davenport, Iowa are. It pays the merest thank-you-ma'am to Webster's English, draws a lot of its vigor and flavor from Gullah, an African slave dialect still spoken by the white and Negro populations of the rice islands along the South Atlantic littoral, adds a touch of Huguenot French and a dash of regional accent that is as deep-rooted and mysterious as the brooding cypresses. Confronted with Charlestonese, philologists tremble...
...book's hero is Daniel Tiamat, an Irish-American newspaperman (his name is that of a doomed deity, the mother of the gods in Babylonian mythology). The book tells how Tiamat arrives at young manhood in full vigor of mind and body, with a crapshooter's wrist, moral faculties unblunted by use, and a more than Hearstian knowledge of what makes news paper readers salivate. By middle age he is reduced to physical paralysis and the ignominy of writing an agony column un der the pseudonym of Miss Friendship (clearly a fictional cousin of Nathanael West...
Intricate Combination. The vigor and eloquence of the appeals, delivered from the unique platform of Death Row, have caught the public ear as they once caught the ear of cops, judges and social workers when Chessman began his life of crime back in the 1930s. Caryl Chessman was a bumbling criminal, but he had a special genius: he has always known by instinct the intricate combinations that lead to the law's heart. In his teens he won second chances (for more crime) with a patter of contrition and redemption. ("I now see crime in its true light...
...loose-limbed man with an inbred love of the outdoors and a mustang liberalism, Oregon's U.S. Senator Richard Lewis Neuberger seemed to embody the brashness and youthful vigor of the Northwest. His precocity and eagerness did not make him popular with his fellow Senators, but two years ago Dick Neuberger fought a brave and desperate battle against cancer that changed their minds-and changed Dick Neuberger. He scoffed at the 1-20 odds his doctors gave him, underwent surgery and won the fight-along with the admiration and sympathy of his colleagues. His struggle left him a humbler...