The Washington Post, August 20th, 2006
The comic versifier Ogden Nash is remembered for a few short rhymes that, for some tastes, have become almost folkloric: "Candy/ Is dandy/ But liquor/ Is quicker," for instance, and the ingenious four lines about the turtle that "lives between plated decks/ That practically conceal its sex," capped by the punch line "I think it clever of the turtle/ In such a fix to be so fertile." The genial cleverness, even in these chestnuts, does not entirely conceal an interest in sex and in the inhibitions, obstacles or deceptions of courtship. As with other light entertainers, Nash's body of work reveal...
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