Word: yorick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they hear Actor John Doe in the role of Hamlet, having last seen him perhaps as Sherlock Holmes, their visual memory of a detective in a checked overcoat greatly impairs their ability to obtain over the radio an auditory image of a gloomy Dane addressing the skull of "Poor Yorick." If the actor's name is not announced, the British listener can concentrate satisfactorily, enjoys the auditory image...
...Yorick...
...Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well" (TIME, April 11, p. 28). One more sad blunder of newspaper Babbittry. If you have a library, and Shakespeare in it, look up the most misquoted line in literature, and reform...
...remarkable in that the sole value lay in echoes. There were echoes of old scandal, old romance, of famed names. Or, perhaps, they were more like bones than echoes, musty bones dug up by the professional gravediggers of the press for the wayfaring reader, who might cry "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well...
...Yorick is dead" those words have sounded down the centuries. And it is with sincere chagrin that the devoted readers of the Lampoon must echo them now. Yet perhaps, out of this debacle will come the experience needed to run an even more successful periodical. Phoenix-like another will rise from the ashes of Ibis to wing its witty way across the cerulean and appreciative heavens of a thankful Cambridge...