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) to Far Away" and "If You're Still in Love with Me". Erstwhile McCluskey collaborator Karl Bartos (formerly of Kraftwerk) co-wrote "The Moon & the Sun". Stephen Thomas Erlewine in AllMusic remarked: ""Universal" is a rote collection of synth-pop and dance-pop from OMD, demonstrating only a fraction of the sophisticated craft that made its predecessor "Liberator" enjoyable, and none of the adventurous spirit of their '80s records." "Trouser Press" wrote that "the album quickly settles into the type of pop OMD has offered since [1985's] "Crush"" and is "enjoyable enough for what it is". Universal (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark album)