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...what most competitors scornfully call "stretcher cases" (cars brought by trailer), all of the A's were driven from their home towns, and one had made it from San Diego averaging 16 miles per gallon and hitting 55 miles an hour without any trouble. From the Wastebasket. In this day of rampant obsolescence and inexorable progress, many of the things that people love most dearly are those that they have rescued-either through stubbornness or nostalgia-from history's wastebasket. The Model A is one of them. Of the 4,849,340 A's produced between...
...these complex arrangements, Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester replies: "Sure, we will float trial balloons. Reporters should ask themselves, 'What is he giving me this for?' and decide along with their editors, 'Do we want to go along with this?' There is always the wastebasket. But there is always the competition. They might print it. The only defense is to slip in a few lines showing that it is a floater...
...interest is , more clerical than clinical, and even dropouts are a problem more of tabulation than of salvation. After 15 years of teaching in schools like Coolidge, Bel Kaufman, a granddaughter of Yiddish Author Sholom Aleichem, in 1962 published a satirical anthology (From a Teacher's Wastebasket) of staff directives, lesson plans, and faculty memos, and she has now extended it to novel length. But her characters-including the inevitable Fat Girl and the Fatuous Principal-are also mostly paperwork. A well-intentioned polemic turns out to be Our Miss Brooks in the Blackboard Jungle...
...Post Office," a sort of Our Town story as Kafka might retell it. A dusty, creaky, self-important postmaster rubber-stamps his way through bizarre, touching and humdrum encounters with the town's citizens. At skit's end, the postmaster is walking around with an inverted wastebasket covering his head. Poof! The postmaster disappears, but the basket is still there. This is typical of the evening's pseudoprofundities-here today, and a basket case tomorrow...
...toss into the wastebasket or otherwise ignore that which offends our sense of truth and fairness may be a satisfying gesture; but it may also be a costly one. May we not, as a people, be repeating once more a type of folly for which the world has paid, in this century, an appalling price...