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...thing DAN QUAYLE doesn't need is yet another publication poking fun at him. Nevertheless, a new comic book is about to tweak the Veep. Where's Dan Quayle? (Collier; $9.95) is a parody of the hugely successful Where's Waldo? children's book series, in which the game is to spot the title character inside an illustrated crowd scene. The Quayle send-up has the Vice President visiting the Kennedy Space Center, Red Square and Pebble Beach Golf Course...
...German and American Romantic theology, which sees God not as a transcendent Other, giving us texts or examples, but as the ground of our being. God, the Romantics believe, is within us; the purpose of religion is to enable us to make contact with him (or her). As Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Unitarian minister turned essayist and lecturer, put it, "That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen." A century after Emerson, his heirs have decided that self-fortification can come through sex -- gay or straight...
JELLY ROLL MORTON AND HIS RED HOT PEPPERS. Headed by Terry Waldo, a 7-piece stage band joyfully recreates the music of this legendary New Orleans pianist, composer, hustler and pool shark who dubiously claimed to have "invented" jazz and undoubtedly put his mark...
...that 19th century writers should write a prose that seems so stabilizing in the late 20th. Ralph Waldo Emerson is good to have beside the bed between 3 and 6 in the morning. So is the book of Job. Poetry: Wallace Stevens for his strange visual clarities, Robert Frost for his sly moral clarities, Walt Whitman for his spaciousness and energy. Some early Hemingway. I read the memoirs of Nadezhda Mandelstam (Hope Against Hope; Hope Abandoned), the widow of Osip Mandelstam, a Soviet poet destroyed by Stalin. I look at The Wind in the Willows out of admiration...
That sign was recently displayed at a Students United for Desert Storm (SUDS) rally on the same grass where once walked Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of the immortal words "Whosoever would be a man must be a nonconformist...