Word: writings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What we miss for this part of the great plebiscite is the services of H.L. Mencken to write about the Carnival of Buncombe, to lay about him in good humor over the "rogues and vagabonds, frauds and scoundrels" who pump "stale bilge" around this "lugubrious ball." But even a man of such laser eye as Mencken confessed that after damning politicians uphill and downdale for years, a certain faith in the process kept re-emerging and he looked to politicians "to be able, diligent, candid, and even honest." That is a tall order, but one suspects that we will...
...saved the nation's honor ... by the natural law of their being find their place in the Republican Party. While the old slave owner and slave driver, the saloon keeper, the ballot box stuffer ...the criminal class of the great cities, the men who cannot read or write, by the natural law of their being find their congenial place in the Democratic Party...
...primary by the "no" votes. In neighboring Idaho, Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Allan Larsen suffered a similar slight. To underscore Incumbent John Evans' refusal to debate, Larsen paid for a televised confrontation with an empty chair. That helped one voter make up his mind: he cast a write-in vote for the empty chair...
...species of insects, including predatory stinkbugs and spruce budworms. The results were invariably the same: the bugs, consisting, as the scientists note, of an excellent dielectric (the exoskeleton) surrounding an electrolyte (the body fluids), displayed brilliantly colored flares from such external points as their antennae, leg joints and jaws. Write Callahan and Mankin: "There is absolutely no doubt that, given the right weather conditions, nature can produce a high enough electric field to light up flying insects...
...stocked in the stores; 235,000 copies are already in print. Christina got an advance of $225,000 when she turned in her manuscript, and paperback rights were sold for $750,000. In addition, Paramount has bought the movie rights for $300,000; Christina is getting $200,000 to write the screenplay; and her husband, David Koontz, who has produced mostly commercials up until now, is getting another large but undisclosed sum to produce the film. In more than 40 years in Hollywood, Joan herself never saw such a sudden avalanche of dollars...