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Even the armed forces and riot police, who just nine days ago beat peaceful protesters, indicated backing for the growing reform movement. "We support the democratic changes," a riot police officer told the crowd, which braved freezing weather and snow...
...nearly 150 years, ever since a women's magazine called Godey's Lady's Book began championing the cause of an annual day of Thanksgiving, the topic has been drowning in a syrupy sea of treacle. Almost every Thanksgiving cliche was in place by the mid-19th century: snow-thatched New England farmhouses, menus of turkey and cranberry sauce, families bowing their heads in grateful prayer, and wayward children dramatically returning home for the occasion. Even Abraham Lincoln in ushering in the modern national Thanksgiving holiday could not rise above what a latter-day President might call "the banality mode...
...AUGUST SNOW. Novelist Reynolds Price proves a born playwright in a poignant trilogy (the other plays: Night Dance, Better Days) about thwarted hopes in a small North Carolina town; superbly staged by the Cleveland Playhouse...
This is not a cheap undertaking. A salvageable railroad car can cost as little as $25,000, but outfitting it may run to nearly $1 million. A walk through the St. Moritz club car, lately a derelict on a siding in Milwaukee, with broken windows and a cargo of snow, made the figure plausible. The bar is black granite, the baby grand piano an ebony Baldwin. Walls are paneled in embossed dark green leather. Brass, art deco lamps match the brass soffit, a three-inch strip separating walls from a car-long mural of mountain peaks. The ceiling...
...AUGUST SNOW. Revered novelist Reynolds Price debuts a trilogy at the Cleveland Play House (titles of the other works: Night Dance and Better Days...