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
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (album) Dindisc disputed this, saying the cost to the band for the sleeve was contractually fixed and Virgin took the expense. Reviews of "Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark" were positive. Paul Morley in the "New Musical Express" wrote: "How fine and different their melodies can be, how detailed and distinctive their song-structure... there is a constant change in emphasis and dynamics. It's definitely dance music. Orch Man's debut LP is one of the best of the year." "Melody Maker" journalist Ian Birch called the record "Unpretentious, tuneful and unceasingly pleasant". "Sounds" and "International Musician" also offered positive reviews. In a retrospective