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...death to mock a poet, Death to be a poet, Death to love a poet...
...Sullivan wrote, they can only occasionally hit upon an operetta that has any humor of its own. Iolanthe, happily, is such an operetta: W.S. Gilbert, for once, lampooned a group he actually knew by sight--instead of pirates and Japanese--and the result, coupled with Sir Arthur's magnificent mock-hymns, was a grandly devastating jibe at the Victorian Establishment. Peers sweep around the stage, admitting, grandly, at they are doing "nothing in particular"; demand humble submission from the Lower Middle Classes and intone a soulful invocation the watery joys of Blue Blood...
Stocky and quick-smiling, Macapagal (pronounced Mock-a-pa-gahl) was born 51 years ago in a palm-frond hut in rice-growing Pampanga province, north of Manila. His first name means "God-given" in Spanish. His mother was a devout Roman Catholic who taught catechism to schoolchildren, and his father wrote poetry in the local dialect. Since poets do no better financially in the Philippines than anywhere else, Diosdado Macapagal's family was often hungry...
Walpole's letters are as steeped in temperament as they are crammed with information: from an enjoyable ambivalence of attitude, Walpole must mock what he delighted in, satirize what he succumbed to, and make plain that in chronicling society, a monocle is no mere class ornament but an actual sharpener of sight...
...compared this attitude to a mock-serious resolution of students at Oxford University before World War II not to "fight for king and country"; Hitler took this as an indication of England's decadence and weakness," Chamberlain said, and was encouraged...