One who was not bothered by such talk was Louis Little, the big-framed, booming-voiced coach who in four years at Columbia had built its football stature up from puniness.
There were also more serious parables of doomed romance, in which an unlikely couple represents the puniness of mankind in the smirking face of Armageddon.
Yet for all its relative puniness, Freedom National is growing fast, and it celebrates its first birthday this week with 10,000 customers and predictions that assets will quintuple .