Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Written by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan...
ACENTURY after Gilbert and Sullivan mocked the aesthetic hysteria of the 1880s, the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Society has set Patience in the beatnik 1950s. Since this opera is one of Gilbert and Sullivan's least scintillating, the "beat poet" approach would seem a guaranteed descent into idiocy...
However, a book ought to go beyond even the best daily newspaper in making sense of events. Kenney and Sullivan had nearly a year to put the race in perspective and tell us what it all meant for American politics in the 1980's. They could have said a lot of things that daily reporters couldn't or didn't because they were too close to the race to understand...
...SULLIVAN AND Kenney write like reporters, which means that they give facts precedence over conclusions. To do them justice, they shine in the details...
...Sullivan and Kenney also chronicle the Boston Globe's internal battle over the paper's endorsement, which finally went to Kennedy. Incidentally, Kenney, a member of the Globe editorial board, does not tell us what position he took...