glaring typo

[Geoff Nathan]

Indeed, one of the great Steven Sondheim lines is from the song 'I'm still here' (Follies) is

First you're another
Sloe-eyed vamp,
Then someone's mother,
Then you're camp.
Then you career from career
To career.
I'm almost through my memoirs.
And I'm here.


Geoffrey S. Nathan
Faculty Liaison, C&IT
and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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----- "Benjamin Barrett" <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:

> From: "Benjamin Barrett" <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
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> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 5:57:37 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
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> My Mac dictionary has
>
> move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction : the
> car careered across the road and went through a hedge.
>
> BB
>
> On Nov 28, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Kathleen M. Ward wrote:
>
> > Could this use of "career" be an instance of the OED's second
> meaning
> > for the verb, "to gallop, run or move at full speed"?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 28, 2009, at 1:54 PM, David Barnhart wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Officials say three carriages of the 14-car Nevsky Express,
> >> travelling from
> >> Moscow to St. Petersburg, careered off the tracks Friday night as
> >> the train
> >> approached speeds of 200 km/h in a rural area.
> >>
> >> (http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/28/russia-derailment.html)
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