"blank stare"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sounds like the first attempt to deal directly with anger management in
verse. Beowulf didn't worry about that sort of thing.

I think I see a higher proportion of blank-stare types on campus than
elsewhere. That includes both the teachers and the taught.

What ever happened to those dynamic "marks of weakness, marks of woe" that
Blake observed in the good old days?

But, as is so often the case, I generalize too glibly.



JL

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > I try to wear [a blank stare] because it makes me fashionable.
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> Isn't anything lame about that, Jon.
>
> Aways follow this golden rule:
> *Whatever* happens, *don't* blow your cool
> You've got to have nerves of steel
> And never let folks know how you *honestly* feel
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