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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999. Any number can play. Cleveland, World Pub. Co. [1957] (OCoLC)562015302 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Clifton Fadiman |
| OCLC Number: | 283540 |
| Description: | 404 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | [1.] American yeas and nays: Who wants to be alone? -- Horatio Alger, fare thee well; or, The road to success -- The buried America -- King of the tame frontier -- Eggheads, intellectuals, ideologues, high-brows -- We knew what we wanted -- [2.] Boys and girls, come out to play: The cheese stands alone -- Do not destroy these originals! -- Meditations of a mathematical moron -- It's a small world -and a better one -- Life's minor pleasures -- In praise of quotation -- I shook hands with Shakespeare -- Brief history of a love affair -- [3.] Mere words: Babel and Babylon -- Small excellencies: a dissertation on puns -- How to speak videomatic televenglish -- There was an old man of Tobago -- Cleriheulogy -- On the utility of u-talk -- A letter to the editor of Holiday -- [4.] Under the reading lamp: The bubble reputation -- Some day -- War and peace, fifteen years after -- Crime and punishment -- Seven authors in search of a London. |
| Responsibility: | by Clifton Fadiman. |
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