Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alter ego--who was born 27 years ago, was introduced to the American public on my first tour here. He has been called the "Little Tramp's Younger Brother." Physically, there is no resemblance. Bip has his adventures and misadventures with everything from butterflies to untameable lions to dance-hall girls, in white-face, wearing a striped pullover and culotte, and a worse-for-wear opera hat topped with a red flower. But basically he and the Little Tramp--like the great Jean-Louis Barrault's Baptiste, and Keaton's Sailor and Laurel's Sad One--are blood brothers...
...mind--he analyzes James's doodles and word-games, and his "Freudian" slips in mis-writing dates on letters--Blotner presents all of the minute details as pedantic facts. Even the events that cry out for psychological interpretation--Faulkner's wife's suicide attempt on their honeymoon, his younger brother's death in an airplane stunt, his debilitating drinking--are spit out undigested, with the unexplored mention that they may have had psychological consequences...
...metal products, paper products, printing and publishing), in addition to its health, education and business needs. Accordingly, it makes perfectly good sense in Morrissey's view to reduce the size of the liberal arts faculty. And, as events suggest, it makes even better sense to begin by firing the younger, more troublesome members...
...younger member suggested that they should use the money in ways that would more directly aid local residents. "You cut CP and I'll cut you," snapped a member who has served on the board since 1968. "If you came to a few more meetings you'd know why we need the money." Finally, by the time the meeting had ended at midnight, the policy board had reached a compromise. Board members congratulated one another as they left...
...recurring theme, since many of the men and women interviewed are over 65. In fact, younger writers get hardly any representation at all in this collection, and the "radical innovators"--Samuel Beckett, Nathalie Sarraute, Eugene Ionesco--have all been around for quite a while, Surely Shenker could have made room for some new faces by omitting a few of the more trivial pieces--for instance, "Howlers," a collection of high-school malapropisms only slightly above the level of Kids Say the Darnedest Things...