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Any Number Can Play

Clifton Fadiman

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Collection of essays, several of which were published originally in various other publications.

Contents:

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

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

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

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

Language: English

Pages: 404

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1957

Any Number Can Play

Clifton Fadiman

0/5 ( ratings)

Collection of essays, several of which were published originally in various other publications.

Contents:

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

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

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

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

Language: English

Pages: 404

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1957

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