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...enactment of the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock in December 1620 provides a speaker with a perfect opportunity to extol the sturdy example of that dauntless band of early settlers. On the 350th anniversary observance last week, the Rev. Billy Graham praised the faith of the founding fathers and warned: "Anything less than this will let us down and we will continue on the toboggan slide that will take us to the ash heaps of history." Alas, one of the modern-day Pilgrims thereupon took a pratfall into Plymouth Bay as he tried to step ashore...
Yesterday's Fashions. To Germany's great pessimistic philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, laughter was man's dauntless ally in the battle against "that strict, untiring, troublesome governess, Reason." Man laughs whenever he can get the best of her, as in nonsense jokes, or when he finds connections that reason would surely forbid. The witticisms of Oscar Wilde nicely support the argument. After his imprisonment, for instance, Wilde said: "If this is the way the Queen treats her convicts, she doesn't deserve to have...
...Dauntless Hangover. Initially, at least, heroism leaves a hangover of dauntlessness. Most of the wounded men insisted-some for as long as two days -that they could return to their units immediately. When a doctor told one man with a missing toe that his leg would not have to be amputated, the soldier smiled. "Great," he said. "I can go right back to my squad." Almost all of the victims were able to toss off nonchalant quips about their plight. In a Danang hospital, an interviewer asked an amputee what had happened to him. "Some bastard stepped on a mine...
Young Prince Dauntless, well acted by Pope Brock, is no traditional Charming himself. He's best likened to Judy Collins's "Hard Lovin' Loser"--"He's the kind of guy puts on a motorcycle jacket and he weighs about a hundred and five." But like the Loser, he comes through in the end to rebuff Mama's cocoa for the tomboy he loves...
When the play opens Aggravain is rejecting the twelfth applicant for Princess. But Dauntless's single status cannot continue forever--no one in the land can marry until the Prince does, and Sir Henry needs to marry Lady Larkin--quick...