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...great, or what? Where else could a group of enterprising shills and snake-oil salesmen get together to peddle their wares? This expo was a holistic sort of con game, where remedies were pitched to the self-absorbed, eager but aging yuppies forever seeking longevity. I'm sure H.L. Mencken would agree that the species Boobus Americanus still flourishes. MICHAEL N. CANTWELL Tampa...
...that gaming (he never uses the word gambling) is creating jobs and "rejuvenating dying cities.'' And he adds, "We don't agree that Tom Grey and his supporters have the right to force their morality on others." Pulling a cue card from his pinstripe suit, Fahrenkopf reads H.L. Mencken's definition of a puritan: "'Someone who is afraid that, somewhere, someone else is having a good time.' The next time I see Tom, I'll say, 'Tom, you're a puritan...
...staff feels that such colorful language is inappropriate for the ed page. However, it is such cowardice that allows men like Forbes to slither into public office. The staff should learn from the tradition of H.L. Mencken, one of the most famous American journalists. On the occasion of William Jennings Bryan's death, Mencken compared him to a "dog with rabies," and once described Supreme Court Justice and Harvard son Oliver Wendell Holmes as having a "natural distaste and contempt for civillians, and a corollary yearning to heave them all into Hell." Few individuals, and almost no politicians, should...
...1920s the Scopes trial enacted the collision between the moral universe of older, agricultural America, where the Bible held authority, and the new urban, secular-humanist nation wherein H.L. Mencken was God. The Sacco-Vanzetti trial stirred up all of America's agitations about immigration, anarchy and the Red Menace...
...music, while a bit bland when compared to the complex orchestrations of Disney's Alan Mencken, Manilow holds his own. With numbers that range from a Spanish-flavored rhumba to a putting-on-the-ritz style ballroom affair, the music itself is somewhat catchy, and fits the animation. Surprisingly, it is the lyrics, by Jack Feldman and Bruce Sussman, that are the really cheesy part of the score. With none of the creativity of Disney's Howard Ashman or Tim Rice, songs like "Let Me Be Your Wings." suffer from overly commonplace declarations of love, while the more upbeat numbers...