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...Beggar's Opera. John Gay's bawdy 1728 parody of Italian light opera, done as a series of Hogarth prints come to life. At the Adams House Dining Hall, April 8-10, 16 and 17, at 8:30 p.m. Tickets...
...more things change, the more they stay the same. Your cover depicting Mayor Beame as a tramp asking for a handout is a duplicate of a cartoon in Judge magazine in 1890 portraying New York City as a beggar...
...capitalist market system's enduring strengths is precisely its reliance on the profit motive which, like it or not, is a powerful human drive. To many idealists the primacy of the profit motive has long seemed to be a sanctification of selfishness that produces a brutalizing, beggar-thy-neighbor society. Victorian Moralist John Ruskin denounced "the deliberate blasphemy of Adam Smith: Thou shalt hate the Lord thy God, damn His laws, and covet thy neighbour's goods...
...time of the robbery, Inspector Jacques Clouseau was standing outside the bank, arguing with a beggar. The poor fellow was trying to earn a few centimes playing the accordion, while his pet monkey collected coins in a tin cup. Now you will recall from The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark that Clouseau has an immaculate and quite literal respect for the law. This is, in fact, why he is in uniform, on foot patrol, instead of dashing about in plain clothes and solving glamorous crimes. His strict adherence to the book, as well as an unshakable simple...
...characteristically, a great deal of trouble outside the bank. In his liquefied and wholly improbable French accent, he delivers a severe reprimand to the beggar and his "minkey," informing them that they constitute a commercial enterprise and require a license. Since this all takes place while the bank is being robbed, it is subsequently suggested to Clouseau by his chief inspector that the beggar may well have been a lookout. Dumbfounded, Clouseau does not mention that while the robbers made their getaway, he picked up a stray bit of currency that the brigands had dropped from the bundle and even...