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...message was clear: under new management, the Catskill Mountains could go far. But Comedian Mal Z. Lawrence, who has often played the G, was not buying. "If Jennie were here, she'd cry," he decided. His colleague Mac Robbins, a fast man with a one-liner, was playing it andante today: "It's a sad, sad time. What can you say? It's the passing of what used to be. The third generation of Grossingers wanted out." So out that none of Jennie's children or nephews or cousins were in evidence. Of all the bygone headliners, Eddie Fisher...
...Monday, some 140,000 people on the scene and millions in front of television sets were expected to watch Reagan be sworn in for the second time and then deliver his Inaugural Address at a for- mal convocation at the West Front of the Capitol. Drafts of the speech, largely written by the President himself, were long on uplifting themes and short on specific proposals. Reagan called for an "American renewal" that frees up the nation's entrepreneurial spirit by shrinking Big Government. In Reagan's by now familiar...
...among other things, a perfectly rendered parable of degradation, more likely to frighten susceptible readers than seduce them: "Practically M. Flaubert is a potent moralist; whether, when he wrote his book, he was so theoretically is a matter best known to himself." But Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal provoked an attack on both the theorists of art for art's sake and the poet: "He went in search of corruption, and the ill-conditioned jade proved a thankless muse...
...have been on English authors. If one read Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, or dipped into Zuleika Dobson, it was a true sign of sophistication. French literature was pretty much uncharted territory, except in my case, for I received a copy of Les Fleurs du Mal with a "sensitive" inscription on the flyleaf from some moony boyfriend. The unexplored terrain of a the Russian novel was as immense as the steppes themselves...
...spokesman for King addressed the meeting, sponsored by the student-run Mal King Support Committee, urging the students to become involved in this campaign as well as the entire political process...