Word: bandersnatch
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...follow the dodo and the passenger pigeon into extinction, who will inherit the earth? Faced with that gloomy question, most futurists and even some zoologists tend toward the whimsical: late-late-show killer ants, say, or playful monsters that put one in mind of Lewis Carroll's frumious Bandersnatch...
...miles northeast of Seattle. As the incredulous Sultanites watched, onward trooped hundreds of hippies, pseudo hippies, camp followers, hangers-on, even some ordinary-looking folks. Then came the musicians with the weird-sounding names and getups - Country Joe and the Fish, the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band, Frumious Bandersnatch, Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck, Dr. Humbead's New Tranquility String Band. They all headed for the farm owned by Divorcee Betty Nelson, a late-blooming flower child of 39 and, starting right then and there, Sultan's first rock impresario...
...years, the U.S. has had a high old time sneering at George Babbitt-the bumptious bandersnatch businessman cartooned into being by Sinclair Lewis. He was the all-American philistine of the '20s. The '30s and '40s tried to kill him with scorn. But he was a tough old party, and now, it appears, he has a son & heir following firmly in his daddy's footsteps. In the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Poet-Historian Peter Viereck introduces "Gaylord" Babbitt,* old George...
Spry as a bandersnatch, the Red Dean retorted: ". . . It is important to remember that I was appointed successively to two dignified positions in the Anglican Church, first as Dean of Manchester [1924], and then as Dean of Canterbury [1931], by a Socialist Prime Minister*, and was appointed precisely because I had long urged that Socialism was, in my view, not only scientific but the logical consequence in our age of Christian morality...
Last week, from nonscientific Dublin, of all places, came news of a man who not only understands Einstein, but has bounded like a bandersnatch far ahead (he says) into the hazy, electromagnetic infinite. Austrian-born Nobel Prizewinner Erwin Schrödinger, of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, claims to have generalized still further Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. If so, he has scored a scientific grand slam: mathematical physicists (including Einstein himself) have been trying to do this, without success, for the last 30 years...