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...claim the urgency and import that H.L. Mencken once assigned to it when he called it "the greatest story since the Resurrection." Ryton is a slave to the egalitarian fallacy-namely, that under the trappings of royalty lie simple everyday souls who have their ups and downs just like thee...
...songs. His own style-spirited, harmonically rich, melodically simple but full of pungent surprises-was crystalized in a string of subsequent hit songs (Somebody Loves Me, Stairway to Paradise, The Man I Love) and Broadway musicals (Lady, Be Good!, Strike Up the Band, Funny Face, Girl Crazy, Of Thee I Sing). By his late 20s, when Gershwin sought (unsuccessfully) to take some composing lessons from Maurice Ravel, the popular question was why he would want to be an imitation Ravel when he was already an original Gershwin...
...drama and force. Best known for his Selected Poems, for Ushant, a third-person autobiography, and for a number of short stories, notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Aiken published more than 50 books of poetry, fiction and essays during his 57-year literary career. His final poetic work, Thee, published in 1971, summarized his personal philosophy "that there are no final solutions, that things may have no meaning...
...tiny bouquet, however, for one line-reading. When Macbeth starts up the stairs to kill the king, and a bell rings, almost all editions have him say, "Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell/That summons thee to heaven, or to hell." Weaver says, "me to hell." This is an emendation I have always found rather appealing. Aside from the internal rhyme of the contrasting pronouns, it implies that the saintly king will surely achieve salvation and that Macbeth fully realizes the enormity of what he is about to do. It was a pleasure to hear this reading used...
Some of the guests wept when a P.O.W. chorus sang a hymn composed by one of the prisoners: "We pledge unswerving faith and loyalty/ To our cause-America and thee." All were moved when a tiny flag was carried into the tent and placed in a position of honor on the stage. Laboriously made from threads plucked from prisoners' uniforms, the flag had been flown at night by men confined in the prison called the Hanoi Hilton...