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Whatever consolation it might afford Americans, the British are with them in their ignorance of the difference between fewer and less:
But that did give us a name for this experimental dialogue--"The Breakfast Table"--and we did line up Nation columnist Katha Pollitt, who is no mean consolation prize, to share cyberkrispies with Sullivan starting Wednesday, April 8. And we hope neither the vigorously conservative Himmelfarb nor the vigorously left-wing Pollitt is offended at the notion that they are what used to be called "moral equivalents."
Honorary (a k a "lifetime achievement" or "deathbed") Oscars are typically consolation prizes, given to people whose work was overlooked in its time--such as Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Federico Fellini, and Stanley Donen, none of whom ever won a real Oscar.
They were repulsed at Hispaniola by a strong Spanish force and decided to take Jamaica as a consolation prize.
Still, it's these older songs that seem the correct assessment: Smoking is a consolation for the vicissitudes of life, a prop for losers.