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...this late stage in the Pepys-watching game, the diarist has become his own literary character whom biographers must attack or defend according to their tastes and their times. To 19th century moralists, for instance, Pepys was that most off-putting of hypocrites: a pious lecher - a Uriah Heep who could preach sanctimoniously to a fellow tomcat while he himself was goatishly seducing pretty Mrs. Bagwell, the carpenter's wife...
...capital. For three days they broadcast appeals for support to other frightened whites and to blacks belonging to tribes not represented in Frelimo. "We are not protesting about the principle of independence, but about the instruments by which this independence is to be achieved," said the Rev. Uriah Simango, head of a black nationalist group opposed to Frelimo...
...Concert. Uriah Heep, Canned Heat and Country Joe McDonald headline an uninspired cast of performers in this concert taped in New York last month., CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...shared Dickens' social indignation, if not his gift for expressing it. "Fair" and "just" are two of his favorite words, and genuine feeling enters his prose when he describes a skinflint like Snobden or a hypocrite like Gideon Chapin, his chief clerk- Alger's American Murdstones and Uriah Heeps...
...There is, though, one problem you find yourself facing when you deal with a man like Richard Nixon, an unctious, 'umble Uriah Heep, a 24-hour-a-day self-parody: he himself is so funny he pre-empts all other forms of comic abuse. Now Philip Roth is not a writer to be shaken off when there's a laugh to be trailed, shadowed and nabbed. But in reading Our Gang, you get the sense that Richard Nixon did indeed give Roth a run for his money...