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...gear. One of his nastiest creations is an Eskimo known as Heck Noe (humor is hardly Dent's forte). Others have long pointy ears, or keep secret laboratories in hollow mountains, or come from an advanced civilization in the center of the earth. All are insanely resolved to conquer the world, and all come equipped with secret weapons-like, say, a fluffy yellow cloud that sidles up to airplanes and skyjacks them...
...last April. Together and separately, the two Kennedys observed only one rule-to be late, sometimes by one or two hours, for every engagement. "The honorable Senator," observed a columnist in the Frankfurter Allgemeinc Zeitung, all of his umlauts drawn into an angry frown, "came, saw, and did not conquer." The Kennedys are not the only public figures who could use a personal timekeeper; so could Senator Hubert Humphrey and Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger. Actress Marilyn Monroe was notorious for never showing up for any appointment on time. Similarly tardy was Poet Dylan Thomas, who was not always able...
...observe what was then called "a grand theater, for the trial of all new plans in hygiene and education, in physical and moral reform." The grand design applied to lunatic asylums and poorhouses as well. Order, discipline and cleanliness benevolently imposed in public institutions would rehabilitate the criminal, conquer insanity and resurrect the indigent. Social Philosophers Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave Auguste de Beaumont noted after an official look at New World progress that Americans had made a profession out of "philanthropy." With a touch of Gallic skepticism, they added the phrase "which to them seems the remedy...
...politely omitted the incredible nonsense and absurdities which comprised much of his speech. as for example: "What would we do, say, if East Germany invaded Sweden?", or "The 19th century British Navy was a good thing because it ended slavery," or "North Vietnam has an army big enough to conquer all of Southeast Asia as far as Burma." He poked fun at basic humanitarian arguments (which he called "anti-anti-Communism") by saying mockingly, "Oh, sure, Communists are human. I suppose a Communist baby is still a baby." (Chuckle). Kahn's talk bristled with this sort of thing...
Comedy is replete with nuances of class and caste, and the pitfalls and pratfalls of making social errors. Nowhere is this truer than in English comedy, or more enjoyably so than in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. This 18th century classic, now being performed at off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater, revolves entirely around conditioned social-status reflexes...