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...Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan). After a devastating fire, the theater was rebuilt in 1809, later named the Royal Italian Opera House. It featured not only opera but all-night masked balls whose patrons, wrote a shocked reporter, "were truly the disciples of the lewd fiend Belial." One gay dawn in 1856, the place burned down again, scattering and sobering the disciples...
...blowups of his column, singing New York's My Beat! There followed something called "The Walter Winchell Story," an unabashed paean with heavenly choirs, lots of girls, sawing violins and huge backdrop photographs of Winchell the baby, the boy and the man, among swirling Manhattan towers and streaky dawn skies. Intoned an announcer: "Strange, perhaps, that a man who has delivered gangsters to the FBI and announced the murder of a mobster five hours before his assassination, should be a poetry lover. But sonnets have led off Walter's column now and then for 37 years. And many...
...Beat Generation, begins his dithyrambic poem Howl (which the New York Times's Critic J. Donald Adams has suggested should be retitled Bleat) with the lines: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry...
...work by the Irish historian Lecky. When he returned, he was still in his early twenties, but he had received a liberal education from the study of these volumes. And when he was married, he read Carlyle's French Revolution to his bride at night until dawn broke...
...dawn one day last week, the slaughter of the sparrows in Peking began, continuing a campaign that has been going on in the countryside for months. The objection to the sparrows is that, like the rest of China's inhabitants, they are hungry. They are accused of pecking away at supplies in warehouses and in paddyfields at an officially estimated rate of four pounds of grain per sparrow per year. And so divisions of soldiers deployed through Peking streets, their footfalls muffled by rubber-soled sneakers. Students and civil servants in high-collared tunics, and schoolchildren carrying pots...