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Everyone knows the story--of Charlie Brown and his failures; of the passion Schroeder feels for Beethoven, only to be harassed by the love-sick Lucy (who in this production cries "Hooray for Barry Manilow" just to get a rise out of the budding pianist); of Snoopy's unending battle with the Red Baron. The small circle of friends grows up in these amusing vignettes, while an occasional moral dots the otherwise harmless script. There's not an undergraduate who in his youth didn't toss a few "good griefs" into the wind at a younger sibling...
...centuries ago, during which Christians who didn't believe what the Popes ordained were killed. Personally I think John Paul is the first real Bible-believing Pope. He didn't say anything that Dwight L. Moody and Billy Graham have not been saying for years. Hooray...
...Hooray for Yasser Arafat for his super remark: "The real terror is the occupation itself...
...fact, though hardly new, the chirp and bleat of parochial pride is more blatant than ever. The simple reason: these days the old hooray for the home team gets amplified by all the techniques typical of the age of hype. Localities and larger principalities routinely hire professional publicists and jingle writers to puff up the old image and help sell it like so much soda pop. Provincial self-glorification is both nourished and exported in a growing number of slick regional and city magazines. Moreover, metropolises and counties now go to exorbitant lengths to build spectacular sports arenas, convention centers...
...Hooray! Let's hear it for the safariing Jerry Brown [April 23], who doesn't sneak around in his private life or feel that any political decision once made is irrevocable. What a historic achievement it would be to have a self-made woman like Linda Ronstadt presiding over the White House...