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...them in hillsides or trash cans, reducing them to mouths or silence--and loved them too, by writing roles so concentrated, in settings so austere, that the performance is the play. And here some wonderful actors (Rosaleen Linehan in Happy Days, David Kelly in Krapp's Last Tape, Barry McGovern in Godot and Endgame) made two weeks of wonderful theater...
...that established Medicare. But his Small Government conservatism was open to the Big Government payout opportunities of the '60s. After his 1966 election to the Senate, Dole's first floor speech was a plea for federal aid for the handicapped. A few years later, he would join Senator George McGovern to ease eligibility for federal food stamps, a liberal priority that happened to be supported by the farmers who were his main constituency...
...taken with a break from partisanship that they pay such dissidents special attention. When the New York Herald Tribune, which had helped found the modern G.O.P., picked L.B.J. in 1964, it was a stunning symbol of moderate-liberal disaffection. When AFL-CIO President George Meany refused to back George McGovern in 1972, it signaled the disaffection of blue-collar Democrats. In 1980 I became convinced that Reagan would win big--not by the polls, which were then showing a close race, but by Reagan endorsements from onetime antiwar Senator Eugene McCarthy and from a former leader of Tammany Hall...
...wine. According to a report that appears in the current issue of the journal Nature, the narrow-necked jar dates to between 5400 B.C. and 5000 B.C., making the stuff inside the oldest wine ever found--by at least 2,000 years. In 1993 a team led by McGovern found the next oldest wine, along with the oldest-known beer...
...winemakers in this case were Sumerians living along what is now the Iran-Iraq border at a time when agriculture and permanent human settlements were first being established. "They were clearly a pretty sophisticated people," says McGovern. "They built reasonably complex mud-brick buildings, and we have evidence that they grew barley and wheat." Now we know they also made wine, along with the jars to store it in. Wine and civilization thus seem to have been invented at roughly the same time--a fact that the French, at least, won't find at all surprising...