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Cummings himself wrote: "I can express it in 15 words, by quoting The Eternal Question and Immortal Answer of Burlesk, viz., 'Would you hit a woman with a child? - No, I'd hit her with a brick.' Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement." His typog raphy is also sometimes a cover for irreverences - and occasionally for obscenities...
...with "a single, terrible.eye . . . black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing on the proper use of infantry. "You must use them when they're on their toes . . . Use them . . . spend them. It's like slowly collecting a pile of chips and then plonking them all down . . . It's the most fascinating thing in life...
...worried, fella," was the quick reply. "I thought you were fond...
...told newsmen after his election as manager that he was "politically inexperienced," he showed that he possessed quite a bit of political intuition or at least political instinct. He salved one of the major irritations produced by his predecessor: the lack of laison between manager and council. With fond memories of his tutoring school days, he told the councillors that he would gladly devote as much time as necessary toward informing them about everything in the city administration and simultaneously he warned the heads of the different city departments not to become wary or frightened by his prying because...
...quarrel, and exchange adolescent dogma on everything from Homer to modern politics. He gets down pat the earnest remarks that bubble from sophomoric lips ("I absolutely agree with the ancient Greeks"). He knows how hard it is for any boy to keep a secret, and how the fears and fond hopes of a father and mother cling like leeches to a boy's guilty skin. He knows just how rumor rules adolescent whims and how instinctive is the yearning for gangs, pledges and mysterious cabals...