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...Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as well as writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, reaches over the broad cultural horizon, we get the satiric sampler America Competes. The piece is an inspired and deftly arranged exchange of imaginary nut letters from folks eager to win a "National Fundament of the Arts" grant. The theme, "America, Where Have You Come From, Where Are You Bound?," is to be realized on the wall of a Washington office building. A Phoenix man thinks his father's handmade place-mat menus would be appropriate. Handicrafters from Ocala, Fla., urge a macrame snood over...
...definitions of that word, and then goes on to define punkah, punkateero and punkatunk. Sexy Words includes cataglottism, ecdemolagnia, parnel, renifleur and stasivalence (don't ask). Under Curses, Dickson offers such arcana as feague, which a 1785 dictionary defined as "to put ginger up a horse's fundament, to make him lively and carry his tail well...
...cycles or Yeatsian gyres but the thumbscrew. On this subject, the correspondents begin to correspond: "The past is a holding tank from which time's wastes recirculate . . . History really is that bird you [Barth] mention somewhere, who flies in ever diminishing circles until it disappears up its own fundament...
Time has been considerably kinder to Comfort's ideas than to Come Out to Play. Its fey style and potty names (Fossil-Fundament, Sir Frank Pus) seem as ephemeral as fruit flies. Worse, Goggins' description of monogamous marriage as the act of buying "meat in unopened cans" is enough to make celibate vegetarianism seem downright appealing.* Paul Gray
...some ways they are more German than the Germans in the West-if a compulsion for keeping busy is considered a fundament of the national character. To gain a few extra marks, truck drivers frequently volunteer to work 12 to 15 hours a day; factory hands complain bitterly when their overtime is limited. Industrial charts show productivity gains that even West Germans envy...