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...gentle jest, the Wilson Library Bulletin printed a sign that read NO SILENCE. Mrs. Jeanne Phipps, chief librarian in Ogden, Iowa (pop. 1,500), found wisdom in the wit: "For a long time I had felt that our library was too formal. The association sort of said, 'We dare you to put this sign...
...book contains only one reference to Galbraith by name, but it is a pregnant one. After the "prominent Harvard economist and wit" has made a cogent point to President Kennedy "in his amusingly ironic way" and then apologized for a gloomy prediction, Kennedy replies: "John, you can't scold us often enough, and as far as I'm concerned, you are both an Aristotle and a Jeremiah, a polymath and a prophet...
...confused with the originals, nor is it to be condemned for its license. Harmless fun and easy to take, it asks the question: Has the time come to judge Moog programmers on their interpretive skills? If so, Kazdin and Shepard rate four stars for just tempos, bold colorations and wit...
...heroine, Diana Balooka, wants everything, wants it now and in generous portions. To be loved by someone who knows his polymorphous pleasures. To be praised by someone who appreciates wit and brains and who is willing to hang in there night after night repeating the whole litany. To be a poet. To tap-dance beautifully. In short, to be a goddess with an indeterminate number of arms dipping ravenously into life's possibilities...
...been trying to pick up the pieces of its nightly network newscast ever since Chet Huntley retired to Montana a year ago. What he and David Brinkley provided was a happy accident, a memorable blend of sonorous seriousness and acid wit. In their early ratings and in their personal chemistry, they were a hard act to follow. So hard, in fact, that last week NBC abandoned the plural approach to the evening news. For the first time in 15 years, it will go with a single anchor man. In mid-August, veteran Newsman John Chancellor gets...