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...White House lunch followed a joint session of Congress that was marked by a rare bipartisan cheer. Attending were such ancient adversaries as Florida Representative Claude Pepper, 81, once a red hot New Dealer, and New York's venerable Hamilton Fish, 93, who was stigmatized and immortalized in F.D.R.'s 1940 campaign refrain lambasting three conservative Republican Congressmen, "[Joseph] Martin, [Bruce] Barton and Fish." Among the speakers: Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, who was first elected as a Congressman in 1932; and F.D.R. himself, heard in recordings. Pepper drew guffaws by recounting...
This was the spirit of the Hundred Days. Action, and action now. Said Will Rogers: "The whole country is with him, just so he does something. If he burned down the Capitol, we would cheer and say, 'Well, we at least got a fire started anyhow.' " On Roosevelt's second Sunday in the White House, he remarked at dinner, "I think this would be a good time for beer." That same night, he drafted a message calling for Congress to cancel the Prohibition ban on 3.2 beer. The House approved this on Tuesday and the Senate...
...indefatigable booster, FDR spent much of his editorial venom on those men who lounged about their rooms, not attending practice to cheer on the football team, not coming out for various squads, and not listening to speeches. One of his reading period papers featured this appeal: "It seems a pity that more men do not realize the pleasures and benefits to be had from membership in one of the various musical organizations in the University. The Freshman Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs, which practice through the winter and give three or four concerts shortly after the spring recess, offer...
...York City didn't have too much to cheer about in 1981. The Cosmos lost the Soccer Bowl. The Yankees lost the World Series. But Christmas sometimes brings about a change of luck, and any skeptics should ask New York's football fans...
...Ordinary People in apocalyptic dead pan-or with the cauterizing fury of a Bunuel satire. A ham-fisted director like John G. Avildsen (Rocky) need not have applied. Nor were Bill Conti's services required: his score sounds like a Spike Jones symphony of klaxons, sassy trombones, Bronx-cheer kazoos and the Hallelujah Chorus. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd maneuver through this minefield on literal flat feet, turning the Blues Brothers into the Two Stooges. Go back to Saturday Night Live, guys. The show could use you. And right now, you need...