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...recorded becomes secondary (Lady Bird Johnson's White House Diary ); sometimes that relation is inverted, and clever treatment makes dull material zippy ( Cleo from 5 to 7. Warhol's novel-transcription a); sometimes neither event nor method is engaging, and the dismal result is a CBS Miss America pageant, or Windsong...
...Courage," perhaps, than it does to art. In Cromwell, desire to inculcate "fact" (and I have shown what sort of fact) offers the only plausible motivation for staging, in huge panorama, each of the three major battles of the first Civil War. With the nitty-gritty gore and pageant out of the way, the American viewer could hardly be expected to resist a few heart-pangs when Harris walks through mist to touch the corpse of his son, slung over a horse, a battle casualty. This, the signal for intermission, brought instead groans of irritation from the Pi Alley audience...
...Greatest Musical Ever Sung is a wash-your-dirty-dacron pageant based on the life and death and life of Jesus. The melodies are old show tunes like "There's No Business Like Show Business" fitted to ecclesiastic lyrics. ("Hello, Dolly!" is somehow rendered as "Hail, Mary!") All the nastiness that anyone might have dreamed of perpetrating while whittling away Sunday mornings in blue-lit religious classes is right there on stage; in fact, at several points during the show, one had the uncanny feeling that You-Know-Who would have turned over in His You-Know-What...
Reich's three categories are first presented historically as stages in a familiar pageant entitled, "How America went wrong . . . and the rebirth of human values that is emerging in the new generation." For Reich weighs the American past and finds it wanton. The Consciousness I period is associated with the young Jeffersonian Republic-freedom-loving, egalitarian, expansive, democratic, though lamentably competitive. Its spirit stifled slowly, as America evolved into another political caricature, the pinched, repressive, committee-loving, life-suppressing, reform-minded meritocracy, which Reich seems to regard as something very like Hell on Earth. Decisive moments in this decline...
...Military Pageant. Just how well the President knows will be evident this week. Nixon is coming back to Washington from San Clemente early to throw a Labor Day party at the White House for at least 200 labor leaders, including Meany-a radical departure, especially for a Republican President, from the pro forma proclamations that have marked Labor Day celebrations in recent years. After dinner, they will be joined on the South Lawn by an estimated 6,000 labor union employees and their families for a military pageant that will conclude with the Army Band playing Tchaikovsky...