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...Darryll Deever (William Hurt), a young Vietnam Veteran, works as a janitor and dreams of meeting Tony Sokolow (Sigouney Weaver), a beautiful television reporter. When a man is murdered, Deever pretends to know more than he does--to attract Tony. He discovers that his innocent lies attract more than the reporter: the killers want him; the victim's cohorts want him; the police want him and Tony Sokolow only wants the story...
...Keller family, despite its typical appearance, is in a bad way, Joe is a murderer Chris, the son, is an idealistic capitalist-to-be: and Mrs. Keller is a neurotic (she has migraine headaches and insists her son is still alive). Chris wants to marry Ann Deever, his brother's former sweetheart and, by the way, the daughter of his father's partner. Chris discovers his father's guilt and is disillusioned; Joe discovers that his older son had committed suicide when he heard about his father's crime, and shoots himself...
...intention in attempting to convey no more to the simple minded than can be taken in on one reading or hearing," points out further his virtuosity at carrying out and varying this intention: "There is no poet who is less open to the charge of repeating himself." In Danny Deever, as in dozens of other ballads, "there is no single word or phrase which calls too much attention to itself, or which is not there for the total effect." Besides a talent for the ballad, Kipling had, to an unusual degree, the talent for occasional verse. "Good epigrams in English...
...advice to fisticuffers, bicycle riders, marathon dancers, reverberated that night with the more melodious, even louder tones of such old-time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus by all the 4,000 and most of the audience...
...result of the final competition for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution held in Sanders Theatre last evening the following awards were made: first prizes-William Griswold Beach '11, "Danny Deever"; Max Gordon '11, "Gungha Din"; second prizes-Harold Brightman '11, "Closing speech in behalf of Madame X"; Charles Walter Findlay '12, "A Plea for Cuba"; Oswald Ryan '11, "The New South...