a_noble_and_absurd_undertaking . "The festival is a living tradition," reports writer David Taylor, "having changed little since the first King and Queen Korn were crowned in 1935." Taylor is standing on the main street of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, during the annual Kass Kounty King Korn Karnival. The king and queen's five attendants are decked in green capes emblazoned with glittery ears of corn. "This is not Disney's America, it's Dorothy's," he writes. The reason that he has come here is a tip from a guidebook that is more than 60 years old. ... 030720 what's it to you? who go blather from