Word: appomattox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...genuine bellyachin' humor as for the lost world they recreate. Dan Rice, the homespun clown who dressed up in a flag suit and ultimately inspired the cartoon image of Uncle Sam, peddled a brand of entertainment which--as the show gradually reveals--was virtually extinct by the time of Appomattox. In his heyday--set forth in the show's early vignettes--Rice would cavort while telling his audiences morality stories (each with a twist), browbeat them with "verbatim" scenes from Hamlet and Othello and frequently harangue them about politics. With a freewheeling didacticism few audiences today would gravitate...
...nicest guy on the block, and knowing he is not good for much else, let him act on the bald fact that war means killing the guy on the other side . . . Then, all this man has to do is keep the fact in mind all the way to Appomattox...
...Government was created by the states." The Constitution does not proclaim "We the states," but, "We the People of the United States . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution." While the Reagan thesis had its supporters in the early Republic, the question is generally presumed to have been settled at Appomattox...