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...WASN'T ALWAYS this way. In the last century, American politicians were expected to "speechify" for hours on end, without benefit of speechwriters, teleprompters, or even notes. The great orators of the day--Webster, Clay and Calhoun--effortlesly infused their speeches with Biblical allegory and allusions to the classics...
...Pentagon denies those charges. The M-17 mask and suit, says an Army spokesman, "will protect our soldiers." Martin Calhoun, an analyst at the independent Center for Defense Information in Washington, agrees: "The M-17 does its job." A study by the Government Accounting Office in 1986 found that while U.S. gear was old and bulky, it offered sufficient protection...
When judges and prosecutors decide that they must bow out of a case, they "recuse themselves." (The phrase cannot be uttered without conjuring up the ghost of Algonquin J. Calhoun, the lawyer in Amos 'n' Andy.) Judges recuse themselves because of conflict of interest. Perhaps all of us ought to be able to recuse ourselves from subjects in which we have no interest whatever...
...CONCERT itself, which followed the workshop, featured three Harvard performers (including Fox) and then Calhoun after a short break. Although there were a surprising number of songs about car wrecks, the mix was varied, with traditional and original selections and plenty of humor...
Indeed, one of the biggest hits of the night--and the only tune to include the tried and true folk-song sing-along routine--was Andrew Calhoun's "Folk Singers Are Boring," a rousing work of self-deprecation...