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...eerily like a grown-up Ralphie from "A Christmas Story," won our sympathy as the simpleton with reservations about being Veep ("what if my mother found out?"). Joe Nuccio '00 commanded a range of priceless facial expressions as Fulton, the head party man. Meara McIntyre was sweet and never shrill as Mary Turner, the gal who made "Corn muffins or justice?" into a more-than-rhetorical question. It is fitting that, as the leads, McIntyre and Cooper had the best voices...
...tends to meander. Now it's Beth's story, now Vincent's, now Sam's. It has little interest in villainy: the backstory of the kidnapping takes just moments. But in a time when there are few serious family dramas--and when those few, like Stepmom, play it shrill and sticky--the old limitations can look like cardinal virtues...
...great Eastern football classic-odor of healthy flesh nipped by late November chill, perfume of flowers, perfume of perfume, perfume of feminine hair, sharp tang of Egyptian cigarette fumes, clean breath of bourbon, smell of furs--chanting roar of cheers, of thousands of male voices raised in enthralled song, shrill feminine screams of sheer ecstasy...
Besides fanning the flames of identity politics, Black History Month sometimes inspires the shrill whines of those who make a living out of being oppressed. For instance, one prominent civil rights advocate has noted that the choice of February, the shortest month, is indicative of a racist culture. Never mind that February was chosen by Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Black History Month, because it includes the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln...
...Rights Act of 1965 would have become law. White's naked partisanship also ignores the 4 million Americans who have been given a fresh start, liberated from lives of dependency on welfare by Republican reforms in social programs. What ought to trouble us all is the increasingly divisive and shrill rhetoric of today's Democratic Party candidates. Last year in Missouri, they ran ads suggesting that G.O.P. victories would lead to church bombings and cross burnings; in Maryland, they grossly distorted the civil rights record of our candidate for Governor. Meanspirited racial appeals have no place in politics...