Word Association #32

Last three entries:

editorial cartoon

politics

political parties

My addition:

political rallies

jamesonʻs Political Unconscious

Didionʻs Politcal Fictions

Didier Drogba

Didier Levyʻs great(?) crocodile-character Ernest

"Sparky" Lyle, NNY Yankees pitcher

harvest festival

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

My sweet baboo

Il Mio Babbino Caro / My Dear Daddy aria
by Giacomo Puccini

Joan Crawford and family

whatever happened to baby jane

Jezebel or Carlota

Antebellum Louisiana

new Orleans

Maid of (Old) Orleans, Joan of Arc

Old Maid card game

High, Low, Jack, and The Game
card game

I Lost

trumped

dealt with Donald

the duck

quack

moo

oink

baa

black sheep

". . .heʻs the white sheep of the family."

*Black U.S. diplomat Walter Carringtonʻs designation of British White Right-Wing politician Lord Carrington, when asked if the two of them were related.

have you any wool?

Cashmere

Indiaʻs "Northern Ireland"

Black and Tans

Dark green and khaki*

*the actual colors worn by the "Back and Tans" -- Green because although imported from Britain, they
were supposed to be an "Irish Constabulary"

Camoflage

O Flag: acme!*

*Praise of the heights that a national symbol can reach; anagram of camoflage.

ACME (Loony Toons)

Iran, Libya, and North Korea*

*as designated by Pres. rRonald Reagan ca. 1985

Axis of Evil

Hitler

The Occult

Aleister Crowleyʻs view v. Dion Fortuneʻs view

Brandʻs Destry Rides Again

Liberty Valance

Four Essays on Liberty by Isaiah Berlin

Elia

Charles Lamb

This is the Song that Never Ends

"This is my story,
This is my song:
Praising my savior
All the day long."

hymns of praise

Shinranʻs Hymns of the Dharma Ages
and Hymns of the Pure Land Masters

Shenron

Pure Land / Jodo Buddhism*

*assuming that Shenron is another way of
transliterating "Shinran". Otherwise I canʻt
connect with 57.

Buddhist temple

temple of israel

Israel Taukolo, religious activist in Tonga, 1980s;* reputed to be King Taufaʻahau IVʻs religious adviser.

*just citing, not recommending him

Iz, the Hawaiian singer

"Izzy" and "Moe", fabled Prohibition Enforcement
agents of the 1920s

Thin Lizzy

Cannellʻs Thin Woman and Hammettʻs Thin Man

William Powell and Myrna Loy

Anthony Powellʻs The Kindly Ones*
and David Loyʻs Lack and Transcendence. . .

*The Kindly Ones, not to be confused with Littellʻs French novel of the same name, is a euphemism
for the Furies (Eumenides of Greek Myth. This pairing was evoked mainly by the theme of thinness (see 65). --What is thinner than "Lack"? And I dont picture the Furies as having been exactly chubby.

Faeries

Spenserʻs The Faerie Queen

allegory

Willinghamʻs End as a Man
or Malamudʻs A New Life

eunuchs

harem

concubine

The Concubine By Norah Lofts

Anne Boleyn

Annie get your gun

Calamity Jane

Jane Russell and Jane Greer
(and any other"Jane"S that were in Westerns

Playtex (for those of you old enough to remember Jane Russell's commercials)

intimate apparel

"What dost thou with thy best apparel on?"
--a tribune in Julius Caesar

don we now our gay apparel

"Old Tom, Gay Tom, Becket of London!"
-- T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

Richard Burton (the actor not the other one)

Sir Richard Francis Burton explorer, author, linguist
(who is "the other one" of 86, I guess).

Iranian* "Nights"

*Iranian: the real ethnicity of most of the "Arabian" Nights.

Persia

Prince of Persia

Omar Khayyam

Edward Fitzgerald or Robert Graves
and Omar Ali Shah

Rubbaiyat

singing in the wilderness

a loaf of bread, a jug of wine

". . . and thou beside me 95 . . ."

I-95

95 Poems by E. E. Cummings

152 Shakespearean Sonnets

The Complete Sonnets and Poems
by William Shakespeare

Globe Theatre

" .. . the great globe itself" -- The Tempest

"A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!" -- Henry V

Coatesʻs The Roar of the Lion

C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, the Wardrobe

Oh, I hope I did this right!

--Savvy

battle

Marathon, Lake Trasimene, Hastings,
Bull Run, Gettysburg, or The Bulge

tapestry

curtains

Third or Fifth Acts

Seneca's Five Act Structure

Fitchʻs Senecaʻs Anapaests (sic): Metre, Colometry, Text, and Artistry . . .

iambic pentameter

Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Dryden or Pope

schooldays

School's out for the summer

shock rock

shock jock

Howard Stern

Robert Howard "glorious trash"* novelist par excellence

*I learned the phrase "glorious trash" in an advertisement of the Friendly Islands Book Store, Nukuʻalofa, Tonga.

William Irish, Dashiell Hammett,
E.S. Gardner, and other greats, graduates from . . .

William Powell and Myrna Loy (1934)

IPOD

old time Phillies pitchers Bud Podbielan
and Johnny Podgajny*

*original pronunciation Pod-GUY-knee
American pronunciation: PoʻJOHNny

we want a pitcher, not a belly itcher

ʻThe pitcherʻs penchant for beer was famous." *

*A non too memorable line from John R. Tunis which I somehow remembered from childhood. Tunis
introduced me to serious sports fiction.

Ain't the Beer Cold by Chuck Thompson

Ainʻt no Makinʻ it: Aspirations and Attainment
in a Low-Income Neighborhood
by Jay MacLeod

Section 8

Alcottʻs Eight Cousins

"Leopold Bloom" and "Molly Tweedy Bloom",
hero and heroine of Joyceʻs Ulysses

Bloomsday

Doomsday machine

apocalypse

napalm

"The Palmer" in Scottʻs Ivanhoe -- quite a fairer
fighter than napalmists; in fact, he was Ivanhoe in disguise.

Robin Hood

Locksley*, Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, and Little John

*Scottʻs pseudonym for Robin Hood

Men in Tights

Mel Brooks

Young Frankenstein

"Frank N. Stein"* by Mad Magazine

*Madʻs parody title for Frankenstein.

Spy vs. Spy

"I was an intelligence operative -- a spy".
--E. Howard Hunt, in court, when asked what his "occupation" was. I always thought it
was nice of him to translate the jargon
into plain English.

spyglass

". . . did you see more glass?"
--character in a Sallinger short story,
asking about salingerʻs great character, Seymour Glass

Shot glass

Half Shot at Sunrise*

*short subject comedy title, parodying the violent judiciaries that were prevalent in the 1940s; shown with the films of the 1930s(?) and 40s.

mimosa

brunch

Sunday

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday
(those funny ads for the monster truck rallies)

Christieʻs Rally naar Bagdad*

*Dutch translation of her They Came to Baghdad=

Ban the Bomb Rally

Underwoodʻs Protestant and Catholic*

*You might think this sociological classic would be about a city where P. and C. were about evenly divided. Actually it is about Holyoke, MA, sometimes called "the most Catholic city in the U.S."

Orthodox

Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ethiopian, Georgian
or Russian

Balkans

mountains

valleys

streams

Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers*

*Their duet Islands in the Streams came to mind

"Hello, Dolly" classic musical

baby doll

Bob Doll charter player in the NBA,
St. Louis Hawks

Chucky (in the horror film)

Chucky Cheese

Chucky O'Brien

Union official, (adopted?) son
of James R. Hoffa

Ambrose Bierce, Harold Holt
and James R. Hoffa

U.S. Civil War, Engineering Unit veteran, writer

Gregory Peck

Gentlemenʻs Agreement, Moby Dick
or MacArthur

whales

manatees

marine biology

The Annual Biology Colloquiumʻs
Biology of the Oceanic Pacific

Hole in one

Ace

Volleyball

beach volleyball

"Rainbow Wahine", University of Hawaiʻi
an d U.H. Menʻs Volleyball

poi

fish and . . .

chips!

Bojangles

Sammy Davis, Jr. or Peter Apo
of The Travelers Three

Wassermanʻs Man of La Mancha:
Vocal Selections

windmills

" . . . of your mind" (winner of a (1968?)
Oscar, in the film
The Thomas Crown Affair by Alan Trustman for Best Song.

Crown Jewels at the Tower of London

the little princes in the tower

Alison Weir historian and novelist

Richard III

" ʻJockey of Norfolk,
Be not too bold,
For Dickon, thy master,
Is bought and soldʻ " -- Note handed to John of Norfolk by one of the anti-Richard rebels, in Richard III and passed on to Richard to be read aloud by him.

education

Harvard, ʻAtenisi, Princeton, U. of Indiana, Heidelberg, Holy Cross, Boston University, or Whittier

ivy league

prestigious

Emperor of Japan, King of Tonga,
Queen of U.K., President of Italy, Ireland, Israel or Germany

United Nations

UNICEF

Susan Williamsʻs Food in the United States,
1820s - 1890

Meals on Wheels

Arthur Haileyʻs Wheels

The wheels on the bus go round and round.

Schoolbus

Schoolhouse

Schoolhouse Rock

Rock and Roll

The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll
by Rolling Stone

On the Cover of The Rolling Stone sung by Dr. Hook

Beatty's The Perfect Cover Letter

Complete Perfect Recipes by David Herbert

Amos Tutuola's "Very Complete gentleman"
(mythical figure; based on African Myth (?) )

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Loos's But gentlemen Marry Brunettes; the Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady

The Diary of Anne Frank

Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Andre Gide
and Carrie Ten Boom

Night by Elie Wiesel

Wieselʻs Dawn, The Testament
The Golem (as told by him
and A Passover Haggadah

Holocaust Survivor

Brecherʻs Schindlerʻs Legacy: True Stories of
the List Survivors & Keneallyʻs*
Schindlerʻs List (aka Schindlerʻs Ark

* Met author.

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project

Life Studies by Robert Lowell*

*Met author. On my Favorites list, but this
isnʻt my favorite book of his.

life science

Korzybskiʻs Science and Sanity

Trying to reactivate "Word ASSOCIATION #32"

The last 3 posts were:

Life studies by Robert Lowell

> life science

> Korzybskiʻs Science and Sanity which seems to have killed the thread. Is that too difficult to play on> Leave it? or start over?

leave it Roland

the lunatics are breaking out of the asylum

"Sanity is not statistical" 1984

Huffʻs How to Lie with Statistics

"Statistics are like a drunk with a lamp post: used more for support than illumination."

— Winston Churchill

"Hi, ya, Lamp Post. . ."*

*Line in a very forgettable song of the 1960s; I donʻt remember the title.

Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Donald OʻConnor and the great Cyd Charisse

princess leia

Prince Charming

slightly mad dwarf

Lautrec in Moulin Rouge

Lagerkvistʻs Dvargen / The Dwarf

"Come TROLL
The bowl!"
Stuart Hoodʻs translation* of
a line that appears at a crucial point in Jungerʻs
On the Marble Cliffs

*The German, if I remember rightly, is something like "Die Willekum / Gehts um!"

Trowbridge* Street and exchange

*Street and telephone exchange in Cambridge, MA;
my grandmotherʻs pronunciation of it was
"Troll Bridge".

English teacher (mine came from Trowbridge, as he told us daily)

John Townsend Trowbridge
U.S. poet, 19th c.

John Stienbeck

John Calvin Coolidge John Tyler
and John Adams

Quincy, MA*, city, excerpted from a town,
Braintree, MA and now of larger population than
its mother town.

*The movie version of Henry Morton Robinsonʻs
The Cardinal was filmed here -- in place of Malden, MA the novelʻs locale.

The M. D.: a Horror story by Thomas Disch

"Youʻll never convince me that Dracula was a ʻfreedom fighterʻ. " --Matthew Williams, ca. 1968
(on a revisionist historical theory about Vlad Tepes, "the real Dracula.")

Che Guevara

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

fallen angels

Beelzebub, Mammon, Dagon,
and Vulcan/ Hephaestus/ Mulciber.

Practical Demonkeeping

The Encyclopedia of Practical Gastronomy (which I oddly bought recently)

Cunninghamʻs Encyclopedia of Magical
Herbs by Scott Cunningham

Herbology

Herbert Norman Schwartzkopf*,
George Herbert, poet, {Herbert C. Hoover,and
Herbert George Wells (aka H G. Wells)


*father of Gen.H. Norman Schwartkopf

The First Punic* War and the First World War

*Thereʻs a theory that, but for slow communications, the SECOND Punic War would have been "the first World War".

"A shlekhter shalom is besser vi a guter krieg/
A BAD peace is better than a GOOD war"
-- Jewish proverb

"This is Deutsch" by Eisbrecher

auf wiedersehen

"So Long, Farewell"

the hills are alive

^ I love her! :)

Mary Poppins

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

sounding precocious

children showing off

"Look Mom, No Hands!!!" :D

"I'm not touching you!"

*Tauntingly as I sit positioned with my pointer finger within an inch of touching you*

colds and sneezes spread diseases

chew, chew, chew! It's good for you!

Clean your plate!

gimme gimme never gets

Larry Goetz*, old time NL umpire

*pronounced: "gets"

The 'bootiful' Bernard Matthews

Dave Matthews Band

Eddie Matthews

Munster Province,
Southern Ireland

The Giants Causeway

The Giants Dance

*a.k.a. Stonehenge

TheSan Francisco Giants, formerly the New York Giants

#305 Kate, I love that one I'm going to have to use that line on my kids!

Jack and the Beanstock

Orson Bean original name: Dallas Burrows
(and, no doubt, he has played in stock companies.)

#316 my mom told us that ALL the time, even when we didn't use 'gimme'

Orson Welles

Orson Brawl by 100 Monkeys

"Such was the origin of the brawl (neikos)
between the Centaurs and the Warriors." *
-- Homer, Odyssey

*has been (mis?)- translated as "from that time on, there has been a feud (neikos) between Men and Centaurs."

Chiron

Jasonʻs guru

Euripides, Seneca, Ovid* and
Robinson Jeffers

*Ovidʻs Medea, however, did not survive.

Falls Church Virginia

Darkness Falls

Koestlerʻs Darkness at Noon

Burdickʻs Blue of Capricorn

Caprica

SyFy

Eureka

discovery of Scientific Law; or vacuum cleaner

scientific method

Methodius and Cyril Slavic saints, philologists

methodology

Methodist Movement in the Church of England*

Oddly, though he was the de facto founder of the Methodist Churches, John Wesley did not resign from the Church of England.

The Great Awakening

Robert Lowellʻs "Jonathan Edwards" poems

theology

Boston Universityʻs and Yaleʻs Schools of . . .

Business

office work

typing pool

bar room reference library*

*Have seen several of them; well, only a shelf, maybe,not a whole library. Not for mixology: for answering silly "argument"
trivia questions, esp. on sports.

Col. Mustard in the library

"Captain , or Colonel*, or Knight-at-Arms
Whose chance on these unlucky doors may seize. . "
-- Milton

*probably pronounced "COR- row - nel" in Miltonʻs
time.

Lincoln. Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy

Assassination

Assassin's Creed

Apostlesʻ Creed

Apollo Creed

Sylvester Stallone and Mr. T

Rocky

II, III, IV (and more?) and ". . .Balboa"

roman numerals

Roman Holiday

Roman candles

fireworks

earth, water, and air* works

* fire, earth water and air: the traditional 4 ele- ments of the Classical Greeks. The traditonal Chinese element list omits air and adds wood and metal. Of these 6 "elements", none is regarded as an element in modern chemistry, and only one
as even a compound

Earth Wind and Fire

Buckʻs "Good. . .", Mitchellʻs Gone with the . . . and Baldwinʻs ". . .Next Time"

fill in the blanks

multiple choice

"The Peopleʻs Choice"* : Leo Durocher, Brooklyn Dodgers, until he defected to the New York Giants ca. 1950.

* or "cherce", in dialect

People's Choice Awards

Fansʻ Voting vs. Playersʻ Voting
on Major League All Star Rosters

The National Voting Rights Act of 1965

"I Voted" stickers

To run for office "on stickers"*

*1940s expression for a regulated form of "write-in" voting.

Pot Stickers (Chinese dumplings)

Wieseʻs The Chinese Ink Stick

Mi Fu
Chinese painter/poet/calligrapher

Il FU Mattia Pasacal / The Late Mattia Pascal
by Luigi Pirandello

Nobel Prize in Literature

(won by Pirandello in 1934)

Pearl Buck, Sinclair Lewis, William faulkner}, Ernest hemingway, John Steinbeck
Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison: U.S. Winners of Nobel Prize for Literature

The Pearl

novella from John Steinbeck

Captain Jack Sparrow

Davy Jones' Locker

DAVID Ross LOCKE
aka Petroleum V. Nasby 19th c. humorist

Vaseline ®

"SAVE NILE" *

*Fictional Egyptian ecologistʻs maxim, and
anagram of "vaseline".

saving face

Japonica: Cliches of the WW II era

Shinto

"Way of the Deities", literally

Mt. Olympus, home of the gods

The pre-Greek Pelasgian Language, (in which
"olympos" was evidently not a name, but just a common noun meaning "mountain").

Etruscan
another lost language
(Is there a more concrete connection between Pelasgian and Etruscan?)

"... a more concrete connection between Pelasgian and Etruscan?" (394)

No, --not enough is known about Pelasgian to connect it with any known language; nor is Etruscan itself completely deciphered, though more is known about it than about Pelasgian, about which only a few inferences can be made, on the basis of place-names. The Romans believed that the Etruscans were from Lydia in Anatolia (what is now Turkey). The Lydia--Tuscany migration is not believed by historians and comparative philologists who have some knowledge of Lydian. But Pelasgian could well be related to the Anatolian languages of 3-4 thousand years ago.
In the case of "olympos", itʻs assumed that the first Greeks in Greece asked the native Pelasgians the name of the local large mountain, and through language mixups, the Pelasgians thought they were asking the definition of it, and answered that it was a "mountain" (olympos). This explains why there are many "olympoi" besides the famous Mount Olympus.

Playing on 394:

>Arapaho Language
(recently written up in the New York Times as a language now endangered, although it was one of the few Indian languages that was spoken, well into the 20th century.)

Navajo Code Talkers

Drosninʻs Bible Code

cypher

Enigma machine

the Byrd (conservative Democrat) Machine
of Virginia*

*Not WEST Virginia, not the late ROBERT Byrd

Tammany Hall

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics
(ed. by?) William Riordan

Occupation: "Statesman".
*
Religion: "None".

*Said to be Boss Tweedʻs answers on a questionnaire filled out as a passenger
on a trans-atlantic voyage.

The New Statesman
British current affairs magazine

The Nation, The Week, the New Republic and Newsweek -- Americaʻs New Statesmans

The New York Times

Crossword puzzle

sudoku

Latin square

Latin (and Greek) "Circle"

(like the Classical Club of Greater Boston, or the Harvard Classical Association0

Harvard Square
historical district in the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Porter Square
about a mile north of 413: book store,
restaurants; a subway stop now, though it
wasnʻt when I lived in Cambridge.

Porter Ranch, Los Angeles, CA

Parker Ranch, Hawaiʻi Island, HI

Book him Danno, murder one!

"Danno"* in the role of David Balfour
hero of Stevensonʻs Kidnapped, 1960

*James MacArthur

Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"I shall return!"

Arnold Schwartznegger (or whoever it was he
was playing)
"Iʻll be BACK!" *

*Opinion is divided on Schwartznegger the politician.
Some think the above quote is very inapplicable to his tenure as governor; others wonder why he isnʻt a frequently mentioned 2012 candidate for president.

Arnold Ziffle from Green ACres

Bacon?

Francis, low-keyed dissenter,
and Roger, high-keyed dissenter

Francis Scott Key

Jimmy Key great Blue Jays pitcher

Florida Keys

Croninʻs The Keys of the Kingdom

Nix's The Keys to the Kingdom

Keyblade

(Screenwriter (?) William S.
Burroughsʻs Blade Runner

"Electric Avenue" *

*pop song, 1980s; had 2 versions

6th Avenue, aka Avenue of the Americas

Boulevard of Broken Dreams
song by Green Day

Merrickʻs A Chair on the Boulevard

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

Prof. Rollo Silver*

*professor of Bibliography and Library Science.
Did he have a chair? Donʻt think so.

Crown Publishers*

Popular, bordering on sensational, publisher.
They do have a large author page in LT, in which the books are attributed
just to C. P. not to any particular author.

Royal Crown

"Tut! Were it* FURTHER off, Iʻd pluck it down!"
-- Richard III

* it = the crown of England

King Tutankhamun

Aldredʻs Tut-Ankh-Amun and his Friends

Amun-Ra

Heyerdahlʻs Ra Expeditions

Heliopolis

Campanellaʻs The City of the Sun*

*literal translation of "Heliopolis"

album The Sun and the Moon by The Bravery

The Moon Under Water (one of my favourite pubs)

Whiskey and Water; a novel of
the Promethean Age by Elizabeth Bear

Tullamore Dew (one of my fave whiskeys)

Glenfiddich

Gilpatricʻs "Mr. Glencannon"

Gary Trudeau aka G. B. Trudeau
and Ross MacDonald

bordeaux

**sorry random lol

Beaujolais

Champagne

getting kicks

Russ Kickʻs 100 THings youʻre
Not Supposed to Know

10 Things I Hate About You

Letterman's top 10

Billboard's Top 100

"I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.

In fact -- unless the billboards fall--
Iʻll never see a tree at all." -- Ogden Nash

"Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long."
--Ogden Nash

"Faculty status for (university) librarians is an idea whose time has come. And gone!"
--attributed to John P.Laucus
Boston University Director
of Llbraries, 1960s--90s.

Martin Luther King, Jr

Boston University alumnus

Eriksonʻs Young Man Luther; a Study in Psychoanalysis and History

Luther's socks

Boston Red, Chicago White, or Colorado Sky*

*Colorado Sky Sox: an independent "Triple A" franchise; they
left Honolulu to go to Colorado in the late 80s.

Premier League Football

Premier (aka Prime Minister)
or President, as Chief of Government

Primo

defunct* Hawaiʻi Beer Company

*or did they make a come back?

poi

Poi Dog Pondering
musical group

the "legendary rock group" Three Dog Night

Bodelsenʻs Think of a Number / Denk pa et Tal

magic tricks

Staffordʻs Mind Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Using your Brain

computer hacking

Hackers (movie)

identity theft

Saul Bellowʻs A Theft; a Short Novel

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