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...Yaphank" transferred to Broadway. The show had a couple of hits: "Mandy" and "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," which Sgt. Berlin performed himself. The notorious night bird took special pleasure in the song?s wryly sociopathic lyrics: "Someday I'm going to murder the bugler;/ Someday they're going to find him dead./I?ll amputate his reveille,/ And stomp upon it heavily,/ And spend the rest of my life...
People hankering for a peaceful, rustic existence should probably curl up with Edna O'Brien's splendid new novel Wild Decembers (Houghton Mifflin; 272 pages; $24) before moving to the sticks. Things are not as pleasant in the tiny western Irish village of Cloontha as the scenery suggests. Michael Bugler has arrived fresh from a sheep farm in Australia to claim the land left to him by a deceased uncle, and the newcomer's presence stirs up the villagers. Especially agitated is Joseph Brennan, whose ancestral farm borders Bugler's property. Brennan tries to be neighborly, but his true spirit...
There are moments in O'Brien's tale when a sensible, peaceful resolution of the dispute between Brennan and Bugler seems possible. The antagonists are stubborn rather than malevolent, and when their lawyers begin exchanging letters and scheduling court appearances, the whole dispute looks ready to subside into protracted legal wrangling...
...popular music, with the intention of lifting the spirits and pulses of a Depressionera audience. The composer was Leroy Anderson, and by blending catchy melodies with upbeat rhythms, he produced music that took the listeners' minds off of their worries. The fanciful gems of "The Syncopated Clock" or "The Bugler's Holiday" were by no means meditative or emotionally taxing; these light and seemingly simple pieces aimed to induce laughter and dancing rather than anguish and contemplation...
...Sept. 20, the Air Force, at the request of Shelton's children, finally put the question to rest and changed his status to "killed in action." Last week, as a bugler played taps, the Pentagon held a memorial for Shelton at Arlington National Cemetery. His name will be carved on the back of the headstone marking the grave of his widow who, deeply frustrated by so many dashed hopes, killed herself four years...