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...American Graffiti Syndrome. Just as we resurrect the era of the most unflattering clothes and hairstyles, we discover new direction in the old music. But like the song in "Oh What a Lovely War"--"Old soldiers never die, the young ones wish they would"--you may sometimes begin to wish that America had not developed such a belated guilt complex about not taking jazz music seriously enough...
...effort to resurrect this spirit at the forthcoming conference in Belgrade by appealing to the Soviet Union to stop violations and to comply with said agreement will be rejected with indignation by the Soviets...
Those lines are a prophetic summary of the modern temper; small wonder that Wallace Stevens wrote of Baudelaire, "His stanzas hang like hives in hell." It is to be hoped that Alex de Jonge's book will help to dispel the poet's legend and resurrect his verse for a wider audience. But that hope, too, may be a drug. In which case, Baudelaire still wins, screaming over the gulf of a century: "Hypocrite lecteur-mon semblable -mon frère!" (Hypocrite reader-my double-my brother!). Melvin Maddocks
...This was really an attempt to resurrect the old anti-abortion laws, and now that Edelin has been cleared, I think it will take some of the weight off of physicians who are presently performing abortions...
...surprise when someone attempts to resurrect a musical so often done as though it were a rare, savorable slightly missing masterpiece. Cadiff's Oklahoma! replaces things that were never gone. No matter how much hamburger helper gets poured into this show the strength of its music and a few good actors will always drive audiences to happy nostalgia for a time they never knew. The one thing that has been genuinely improved here is the end: the show has never closed so benignly or with such a nice nod to nature before...