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...were made by Buzhardt, a lay Southern Baptist minister from South Carolina who neither smokes, drinks nor cusses. But while Buzhardt saw fit to delete every "goddam," "Jesus Christ" and other examples of presidential irreverence, he left intact a good many four, five, ten-and twelve-letter specimens of Anglo-Saxon earthiness. These fell before Nixon's own blue pencil. So too did some ethnic slurs used by Nixon. According to the New York Times, the President referred to Judge Sirica as "that wop," spoke of "those Jewboys" in the Securities and Exchange Commission, and described L. Patrick Gray...
Representatives of the Guinnesses, the Anglo-Irish beerage nobility who publish the Book of Records, which they claim is the world's biggest-selling volume after the Bible, were not all that amused by the heroics in Los Angeles. They will have to update the Book of Records-and now that just about every record in existence is open to challenge by oddball Olympians-will face the prospect of constant and frequent revisions...
...Wursthaus, at 4 Boylston St., in spite of an equally unsuccessful attempt at evoking Anglo-European atmosphere with a name, is more like the kind of bar to be anticipated in a big university town. Maybe not a bar for undergraduates, the Wursthaus appeals to anyone who likes good foreign beers (the selection of beer upstairs is the best in Cambridge) and quiet. Try to ignore the decor, which is an awful attempt at South German kitsch. Also the food is worth avoiding, just as the beer is worth making a special visit for about once a month. The prices...
...mode is heavy irony, a technique that is not familiar to Anglo-Saxon literature but is a staple of Middle Europe. A general, getting to heaven, demands to know why the soldiers he passes do not do "Eyes right." His driver explains that they cannot because their heads have been blown off. When the battalion goes to get rations, they get instead a postcard with the message...
...Matthews examines certain major themes in Eliot's life: his overly strict, God-fearing, asexual upbringing, a disastrous first marriage which drove him for years into a devastating personal waste land, the gnawing sense of guilt which pervades his post-1922 poetry and plays, his conversion from Unitarianism to Anglo-Catholicism, and the emotional rejuvenation of his second marriage...