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...lost world they recreate. Dan Rice, the homespun clown who dressed up in a flag suit and ultimately inspired the cartoon image of Uncle Sam, peddled a brand of entertainment which--as the show gradually reveals--was virtually extinct by the time of Appomattox. In his heyday--set forth in the show's early vignettes--Rice would cavort while telling his audiences morality stories (each with a twist), browbeat them with "verbatim" scenes from Hamlet and Othello and frequently harangue them about politics. With a freewheeling didacticism few audiences today would gravitate to for entertainment, he lengthily described the benefits...
...hack work, he produced seven of them, and in 1949 collected a Pulitzer Prize for one, Louisiana Story. As music critic of the New York Herald Tribune from 1940 to 1954, he skewered arrogance and stupidity in the musical establishment with a perceptive gusto unknown since the critical heyday of George Bernard Shaw. Composer Aaron Copland, his contemporary, calls him "about as original a personality as America can boast." This week, in what is far from the least of his accomplishments, Virgil Thomson turns a hale and peppery...
...this new stress on ideology and discipline has puzzled analysts who expected a period of relaxation to follow the harsh crackdown earlier this year. One possible explanation for the campaign is the leaders' concern that any slackness could produce the kind of discontent that erupted during the heyday of the democracy movement of 1978-1979. Another explanation postulates a political compromise between Deng and more conservative law-and-order forces within the party. Some analysts speculate that Deng wants to show party hard-liners he is not soft on dissent so they will go along with his ideological heresy...
...thing is that it was not so long ago that the art of the insult was in its heyday. Winston Churchill was a virtuoso at it, calling Clement Attlee "a sheep in sheep's clothing" when he was not calling him "a modest little man with much to be modest about." Then there was this famous exchange...
DIED. Daniel Daniel, 91, for more than half a century a leading writer on baseball and boxing and a founder and former editor of Ring magazine; after surgery for a stomach tumor; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Daniel covered baseball from 1909, the heyday of Ty Cobb, until the 1974 World Series, which he reported for the Sporting News, mostly for the now defunct New York World-Telegram and New York World-Telegram...