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
Day of the Animals is shocking for a modern audience raised on his work in comedy. Writer William W. Norton was himself disappointed in the film. Modest praise was issued by "The Hollywood Reporter". Some critics nevertheless recommended the film to fans of natural horror and disaster films of the 1970s. AllMovie compared it to "Kingdom of the Spiders" and "Frogs" Those who saw the film at a young age have formed a cult following of sorts. Day of the Animals Day of the Animals is a 1977 American natural horror film directed by William Girdler and based on a story written by Edward