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- <text id=92TT2522>
- <title>
- Nov. 09, 1992: Miscellany
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Nov. 09, 1992 Can GM Survive in Today's World?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 26
- SOCIETY
- Miscellany
- </hdr><body>
- <p> ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN
- </p>
- <p> Elvis has been sighted in the new edition of Bartlett's
- venerable Familiar Quotations, along with Monty Python, Chuck
- Berry and Kermit the Frog. But to make room for pop culture,
- general editor Justin Kaplan had to drop a few dead poets and
- philosophers. All told, 340 contributors were added and 245
- removed.
- </p>
- <p> WHAT'S IN
- </p>
- <p> Cookie Monster: "Me want cookie!"
- </p>
- <p> The Doors: "Come on, baby, light my fire..."
- </p>
- <p> Abbie Hoffman: "Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger."
- </p>
- <p> Woody Allen: "Not only is there no God, but try getting a
- plumber on weekends."
- </p>
- <p> WHAT'S OUT
- </p>
- <p> William Shakespeare: "Framed in the prodigality of nature."
- </p>
- <p> Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Knowledge and timber shouldn't be
- much used till they are seasoned."
- </p>
- <p> Ralph Waldo Emerson: "It is impossible for a man to be
- cheated by anyone but himself . . ."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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