Ogden Nash and "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." Nash, a baseball fan, wrote a poem titled "Line-Up for Yesterday," an alphabetical poem listing baseball immortals. Published in "Sport" magazine in January 1949, the poem pays tribute to the baseball greats and to his own fandom, in alphabetical order. Here is a sampling from his A to Z list: Nash particularly loved Baltimore sports teams. Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite "The Carnival of the Animals", which are sometimes recited when the work is performed. The original
Universal (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album) Universal (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album) Universal is the tenth album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released in 1996. It spawned the group's first Top 20 hit in the UK for over five years with the track "Walking on the Milky Way". However, follow-up single "Universal" and the album itself performed poorly and this lack of success prompted singer Andy McCluskey to dissolve the band. It would remain their final album for over a decade until the group's reunion. OMD co-founder Paul Humphreys, who had departed the group in 1989, served as principal songwriter on "Very Close