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...rotund in comparison to McGovern's prairie tones. "For there is a new wind rising over the land," he said. "In it can be heard many things, promises, anguish, hopes for the future, echoes of the past, and our most cherished prayer, America, America, God shed his grace on thee." In an insistent litany, he invoked the deeds of past Democratic Presidents?Jackson, Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy and even Lyndon Johnson...
...that time, Kaufman was a rich, famous author-collaborator of more than two dozen comedies and musicals, including You Can't Take It With You, Of Thee I Sing and Silk Stockings. His career as a critic, playwright and director spanned nearly 40 years, and his influence was enormous. Brooks Atkinson credited Kaufman with making the wisecrack part of our language. Groucho Marx claimed that "Kaufman gave me the walk and the talk...
Alas, too true. But these days, bad news arrives thicker and faster than the mind can follow, or bear to contemplate. Often it seems that all one can muster in response is, at best, some variation on Hamlet's simple formula for mourning-"Absent thee from felicity awhile"-or at worst, numb weariness and futility...
...have concluded that the arbitrary preference established in favor of males by the Idaho code cannot stand in the face of the Fourteenth Amendment's command that no state can deny thee equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction," Chief Justice Warren Burger said yesterday. He also said that legislatures may treat women differently only when the purpose of such treatment is reasonable...
...best, and its peppy dissonances and romantic melodic line serve to season the overall inanity. Key Performers Bernadette Peters, Phyllis Newman, Donna McKechnie, Ron Husmann, Jess Richards and Remak Ramsay enact their roles with desperate valiance. So did the ship's band that played Nearer My God to Thee on the maiden voyage of the Titanic...