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Top revelations include that at one point, Gingrich was so stressed out that he went off his diet, and that at another, he successfully smoothed over ruffled Democratic feathers by sending over inscribed copies of his two books.
Pop songs are supposed to be universal--"I Will Always Love You"--but Merrill was specific with a vengeance: Even if you were minded to write a song about a gal who wears red feathers and a huley-huley skirt and lives on jes' cokeynuts, why would you open with the line "I work in a London bank"?
Pick up just about any issue and what you'll find is a kind of literary balm--a quietly reverential attitude toward books in general, combined with a disinclination to ruffle feathers.
(One might add in passing that the twentieth-century, establishmentarian feathers ruffled by D. H. Lawrence with Lady Chatterley's Lover were less the result of Mellors' seducing a member of the aristocracy than his not addressing her properly.)
Ruffled Feathers