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...ends-Not with a bang but a whimper." And Pennsylvania's Democratic Joe Clark outdid all the melodrama by telling how he had surrendered his "sword" to the South's chief strategist, Richard Russell of Georgia. "Surely," cried Joe Clark, "the roles of Grant and Lee at Appomattox have been reversed." And then Clark wound up with a touching recital of four stanzas from The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...alive within theater walls, seem superbly demented in three sober dimensions? It turns out that to a notable degree, it can. For one thing, there is much of Thurber that snugly fits a kind of intimate revue. The Unicorn in the Garden and If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox are made-to-order blackout skits; The Night the Bed Fell is a natural recitation piece; Walter Mitty's secret visions make fine capsule dramas. Other bits of Thurber enhance an intimate revue by extending its horizons without violating its spirit. Finally, blown-up Thurber drawings serve the show...
Nobody will ever know who really started it. It may well have been an obscure vaudeville comedian, after Appomattox or after Yorktown, who first used the joke during a desperate split week in Manchester or Dublin. The joke involved someone's trying to rent a cottage with a W.C. (water closet) and being misunderstood by someone else who thought that by some tortured leap of the jokemaker's imagination the letters stood for Wayside Chapel. Thus, the W.C. was nine miles from the house, could be visited only twice a week, etc. - endless possibilities. Little could the unsung...
This new book by Bruce Catton, a veteran composer on Civil War themes (A Stillness at Appomattox] represents the second movement in a planned symphonic trilogy on Ulysses S. Grant. It is scored for the gentle woodwinds of camp life and hearthside as well as for the big brasses and percussion of battle. Taking over the work begun by the late Lloyd Lewis with Captain Sam Grant (1950), Author Catton deals with Grant's astonishing growth in two years from hesitant commander to superb tactician...
Stillness at Appomattox. In Memphis, Lawyer Robert E. Lee refused to defend Ulysses S. Grant, who was charged with public drunkenness, then explained: "What would people say if I lost the case...