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...Fourth of July speech today is seldom the shapely purple cloud of bombast that it once was. That style is nearly extinct. The old eagle-screaming rhapsody, the Everlasting Yea, survives mostly in wistful, or merely empty, references to Jefferson, in Smithsonian pageants or in the elegiac drone of a speaker recalling something that happened a long, long time ago, almost in another country...
Morally uplifting, inspiring, spiritually refreshing. Yea, right. About as exciting as Donny and Marie smiling as they give a tenth of their fortunes to the Salt Lake City hierarchy. The Mormons are the original cultists, a century before Moon hit town. Some guy in New York meets two angels in a meadow and leads thousands of submissive followers across the continent to eat locusts and practice bigamy in the deserts of Utah. Not everyone...
There must be something good to say. Let us say yea for the way Theoni V. Aldredge has turned back the decades with the gracious flow of her costumes. And a resounding yea for David Mitchell's set, with its misty evocation of San Francisco and the ability to structure a home that looks lived in. But, alas, a frame doth not a picture make...
Richardson's attitudes are rather paradoxical about "authority" and what it represents. For most of his life, he worked in the service of his nation--and many times he killed for it. In Vietnam, the bodies of the Vietnamese were piled "yea high." He holds his hand above his head in illustration. But devotion to country only goes so far. Outside Lowell House, Richardson's 1971 Chevy Impala has a bumper sticker on it summing up his attitudes about where the country is heading. "CRIME WOULDN'T PAY," the bumper sticker reads, "IF THE GOVERNMENT...
...they Measure by New ton's Doctrine of the Fluxions of an Atom, A Thing that does not Exist ... a Line or Lineament is not formed by Chance; a Line is a Line in its Minutest Subdivisions . . . God keep me from the Divinity of Yes & No too, The Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up & Down to be the same Thing as all Experimentalists must suppose." This is a long way from the world of relativity and particle physics...