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...like the British, and that's what I aim to keep on doing." Said onetime Fusilier Graves: "This is no time to persuade the British public . . . that British greed and tyranny had solidly united the thirteen colonies in a white-hot fury of revolution. . . . The broadcast account of Breed's Hill, popularly miscalled Bunker Hill,† was beautifully and comprehensively inexact...
...Graves was right: the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on Breeds Hill, next to the original Bunker-both are now called Bunker. The Bunker Hill monument is atop what was Breed's Hill...
...Kansas City Star printed a note from a Kansan in New Delhi: "I read an article saying that American scientists are developing a new breed of sheep with short legs. They also are trying to develop turkeys with smaller bodies to provide small pieces for small families. I am sure these scientists have never been where they had to eat mutton cooked British style. . . . Legislation should be passed to prevent these scientists from further experiments. They should spend their time developing a turkey with four legs and two breasts so that the boys can enjoy themselves after they come home...
Love of country, admirable as a natural passion, was distorted into a fierce nationalism by William Shakespeare ("this happy breed of men, this little world") and a host of Romantics- including William Blake, who selfishly hoped to "build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land...
Repetition does not breed reward in this case. With continual emphasis on the same theme the humor palls somewhat but the authors have introduced a few novel twists which keep one guessing most of the time...