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A Christmas Chimera

And to Afro's chairman (Eileen Southern's meant).

Drink up your porter for Samuel Beer,

And chase it with punch for polemical Ewart Guinier.

Wassail David Riesman, many-nuanced;

He's not female, not female-influenced.

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For Ronald Bush, Pound's A Lume Spento.

All the season's warmth (and early nights) for Sorrento.

To the imperial MISTER Pipes, the scraps of the feast,

Like dogs or (what is it?) acquisitive little beasts.

Good will to the McCaffreys, Baker, Bate and Grandine,

To retired Galbraith, Smithies, and Eckstein.

Some compassion for Captain Lock 'Em Up, James Q. Wilson,

Ethnic pluralism for Crimson letter writer, Martin Kilson.

To Karl Deutsch, pacem in terris,

For Freeman and Frohock, a trip to Paris.

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