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Hoary Propaganda. The speech caused hardly a ripple in the U.S., but from Belfast to Whitehall it reaped a whirlwind of scorn. Kennedy, declared Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, "has shown himself willing to swallow hook, line and sinker the hoary old propaganda that I.R.A. atrocities are carried out as part of a freedom fight on behalf of the Northern Irish people." Other critics quickly pointed out that Kennedy's proposal for unification was unrealistic, and that even the Irish Republic's Lynch has said only that he hopes unification can be achieved...
...These comments lack the pithy bite of aphorisms, and as out-of-context fragments, they lose much of the slyly inflected wit that is one of the special pleasures of reading Beerbohm. The tone is wrong too. Clive Revill employs a voice and manner of waspish arrogance, whereas benign scorn or amused disdain would be truer...
...sure, ideologies had very little to do with the election in question.) No, if I'd been forced to the choice. I'd sure as hell have made sure that the weight of my vote would have gone to the man who begged to be treated with laughter and scorn...
...HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE IN THE MCCARTHY ERA. The First Amendment says in no equivocal language that Congress shall pass no law abridging freedom of speech, press, assembly or petition. The activities of this Committee, authorized by Congress, do precisely that, through exposure, obloquy and public scorn...
Piston's Symphony No. 2 (DGG, $6.98). Like Randall Thompson's mellifluous Symphony No. 2 (Leonard Bern stein; Columbia), this eloquently traditional 28-year-old work has survived the original scorn of avant-gardists who should have been hung by their own dog mas. Proud of theme, opulent of chord, it is performed with missionary brio by Michael Tilson Thomas and the Bos ton Symphony...