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Frankly, my readers, I had no idea the song of the South still sang such sweet melodies in the ears of some American people. To remedy my ignorance, I went straight to the source--local newspapers. I discovered that supporters of the "Stars and Bars," (not to be confused with the alliterative "Stars and Stripes"), argue that the flag of the Confederacy represents the South, not slavery...
Finishing the grueling 26.2 mile course came as sweet relief to Lewis Shi '00, who said he spent this fall juggling thesis-writing and training for the marathon. He finished with a time...
...hillside overlooking a fertile valley, catches morning sun and stores the warmth all day within its thick stucco walls. They built a thatched-roof outhouse, a rabbit hutch and a chicken coop. They cleared four acres of farmland and sowed their first crop: manioc, beans, peanuts, pineapples and sweet potatoes. Her sisters lent Nereciana pots and empty jerricans that she filled with bananas, yeast and hops to ferment banana beer...
...which causes the holder of the title of Baronet to perform one evil deed each day until he will invariably refuse to commit the crime and then die, in agony, at the hands of his ancestors. Sir Rutheven has faked his own death and has disguised himself as the sweet, disarming young farmer Robin Oakapple, who has such low self-esteem that he cannot confess his love to Rose without the help of his long-lost foster brother, the entertaining sailor Richard Dauntless (Francis Crick '03). Angle is ideally cast as the naive, helpless Robin, who becomes even more inept...
Borrowing a little excitement is fine, and there's something sweet in Clooney's homage to TV's past. But there's an apologetic ring to the project too; it seems to kowtow to the Edenic myth that since the 1950s, TV has charted a direct course to hell. Many of the decisions--from shooting in black and white to having Walter Cronkite introduce the production--are like penance for the past. And no such apologies are necessary. Playhouse 90 was a wonderful program, but there's a difference between creating TV and broadcasting theater, between using the medium...