Word: mason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having just revolted from an unimpeachable King, early Americans had passionate feelings about the subject of impeachment. They feared that an untouchable President would turn into a tyrant, yet worried that making him subject to impeachment would destroy his ability to govern. Said Virginia's Colonel George Mason at the Federal Convention: "No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above justice? Above all, shall that man be above it who can commit the most extensive injustice?" South Carolina's Charles Pinckney countered that impeachment would enable...
SANDERS THEATER. The King's Singers. Tickets: Free from Peabody-Mason Music Foundation, Box 153, Back Bay Annex, Boston 02117. Wednesday, November...
SANDERS THEATER. U.S.S.R. Baroque Ensemble. Tickets: Free from Peabody-Mason Music Foundation, Box 153, Back Bay Annex, Boston 02117. Wednesday, October...
...Raymond Chandler every time I turn on the television. In Perry Mason reruns, in Frank Sinatra as Tony Rome, Peter Falk as Columbo, or brand new episodes of Cannon there are elements of Philip Marlowe. Somehow, (using Bogart, perhaps as media image, because we watch television now for the same kind of entertainment our parents looked for in the movies 25 years ago) someone has turned Marlowe into the average American, leading the slightly above average American life. And therefore into a cultural hero, because you should only be slightly above average. Marlowe is more viable than Ford...
...show called Perry Mason should be an easy money-maker, CBS must have thought. I hope they're wrong. I hope the new show fails before it molds Perry Mason and his colleagues into forgettable characters. The Mason created in 1933 by Erle Stanley Gardner was a volatile, often unscrupulous lawyer-sleuth. Raymond Burr toned the man down, but added a dynamism of his own which made Mason the sort of fascinating static character best suited to an hour-long TV show. Monte Markham, though somewhat better in the second episode than in the first, appears to have whittled Mason...