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The etymological game being what it is--( requiescat in ) pace John Ciardi--I fully expect someone to come up with an origin for cute as a button that identifies it with the six adorable daughters of some 17th-century Londoner named Button or, just to make it more complicated, a corruption of the expression *acute as a bouton in which bouton means `stud with a sharp point'--in other words, originally equivalent to sharp as a tack .
(Click here to visit the John Turturro Shrine.)
John McLaughlin testimony, Apr.
Chief culprit in Darger's case is one John MacGregor, an art historian to whom Darger's former landlord, now his executor, has bequeathed semi-exclusive access to some of the Darger material, and who is thus the main disseminator of Darger criticism.
I'm with you on "MacArthur Park"; I'm with you on "Crimson and Clover"; but "Convoy" is one of those songs, like "The Battle of New Orleans," "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport," "Please Mister Custer," and Walter Brennan's unforgettable talking rendition of "The Epic Ride of John H. Glenn" (it's on the flip side of "Old Rivers"), that I'm just going to give a pass to.