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...Country ‘Tis of Thee” boomed over loudspeakers, thousands of Bostonians gathered in City Hall Plaza yesterday evening for an interfaith vigil in support of the victims and families affected by Tuesday’s hijackings and terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon...
...clearest in the author sketches with which Welles often introduced the evening?s story. Note the confident scholarship - the mixture of history and an-ecdote, the oral eyebrow raised at "establishments," the almost sexual acceleration of subsidiary phrases, the assumption that listeners will know who Reubens was, the "?tis" and the "Pittsburgh" - in this honey of an intro, written by Houseman for "The Count of Monte Cristo...
...revolutionary. His grandfather was a marquis, his grandmother was a negress. [He was] the wildest romance of a man, who could and did openly maintain at 70 numerous "establishments," and a literary factory as well, whose quantitative output in the arts is equaled only by Reubens? studio. ... ?Tis no secret and no shame either than the Chateau Monte Cristo was haunted by many ghostwriters, and that its author signed his name to more books than anyone could ever write. ?Tis not expected of Pharaoh that he build with his own hands his own pyramids. But the mere blueprint...
...used to obliquity. But this, to quote the King of Siam, 'tis a puzzlement. And when you're trying to get business managers to make plans for a recovery (and to make those desperately needed capitol outlays just as soon as they can possibly stomach) you don't give them a mixed-signals migraine...
...Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Let us save Pluto, the planet we have loved, and save the dream of planets yet unknown...