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What is much more evident, however, is that the Republicans have taken care of their own and penalized those who tend to vote Democratic. Spending cuts in the G.O.P. budget fall most heavily on the poor. The litany of excisions has all the uplift of a requiem mass: reductions in welfare spending, ending welfare and Medicaid as absolute entitlements, reductions in the rate of increase in Medicaid assistance to the poor and in the rate of increase in Medicare, cuts in discretionary spending. All these affect those below the middle rung on the economic ladder...
...lady didn't sing last night at Briggs Athletic Center after the Harvard women's basketball team lost the Ivy League title to Dartmouth 72-48. She conducted an entire orchestra--complete with thousands of fans, two bands and teary-eyed players--in a bittersweet requiem...
...settled for good, it was in Samoa, in a grand plantation house designed for large-scale entertaining. He wrote steadily, made more and more money, and happily or resignedly spent all of it keeping his deadbeat in-laws afloat. He died at 44, in 1894, having written his own requiem: "Under the wide and starry sky/ Dig the grave and let me lie/ Glad did I live and gladly die ..." McLynn tells his story with grace and skill, and only a dull reader will finish this biography without heading for the library to search out a complete edition of Stevenson...
...diary Cheever wrote a prayer: "Oh, to be so much better a man than I happen to be." A requiem might be said over this Evening. What should have been the meeting of true minds -- Cheever's and Gurney's -- is only the conscientious trivializing of a major writer...
...Oscar for best picture, and Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, a basting of three episodes of a Disney-TV western, was a surprise box-office hit. For a few more years, television's prized anthology series, like Broadway, continued to spawn serious films: The Bachelor Party, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Days of Wine and Roses. A dormant period was broken in the late 1970s when the TV transfers showed a bit of new life with Star Trek: The Motion Picture; The Blues Brothers (first of the SNL films); and The Muppet Movie (from Jim Henson's syndicated menagerie...