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Stengel's critique neatly encapsulates a view that has remained unchanged since Voltaire dismissed North America as "a few arpents of snow." Edmund Wilson gamely attempted to make his neighbors fascinating in a historical survey named for the country's national anthem, O Canada (1965). Pauline Johnson, Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan: above the St. Lawrence Seaway these are names from a literary pantheon. Below it, they are authors out of print...
...field last week, Budd was pressured to withdraw from a tune-up race last Saturday in Sussex because officials said they feared antiapartheid demonstrators. Jane Furniss, England's No. 2 middle-distance runner, says of her new competitor: "When our flag goes up and they play the national anthem, would she feel she had won for Britain or South Africa?" Like those safari ants, Budd is pressing on. She has next to hurdle the I.O.C. eligibility rule requiring three years' residency. Exceptions have been made in the past, notes Sir Arthur Gold of the British Amateur Athletic Association...
...loudspeaker blared, "Students are reminded that our first responsibility is to make a favorable impression for our friends from the great country of Russia." On the front steps, Band Director Louis Oliverio had arrayed his finest musicians. He had worked feverishly to get the music to the Soviet national anthem, obtained it less than 24 hours before, and now the Cougar band got through it without a hitch...
...beloved of advertisers. Ironies are obvious: once the network that offered a haven for countrified fare like Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies, CBS has slowly been re-gentrifying itself. With three more pilots set in New York on the way, it seems ready to march to a different anthem: "My little town blues/ are melting away,/ I'll make a brand-new start of it/ in old New York." CBS and Manhattan may seem like another odd coupling, but given the influx of new shows, it just might take...
...this day in New York City, the call is for a movie that many of the auditioners in line view as an anthem to their lives: A Chorus Line, a film version of the Pulitzer-prizewinning musical play that last year became the longest-running show in Broadway history. A sort of downbeat reworking of Busby Berkeley's 1933 movie 42nd Street, in which a member of the ensemble suddenly becomes a star, Chorus Line depicts the ruthless process of casting a Broadway musical; it evolved from the actual experiences of its first performers. Although even weeknight tickets...