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...BOB GRAHAM Dean swiped the Florida Senator's best issue, his opposition to the war, and this helped relegate him to the second tier...
...Bob Hope, who died last week at 100, was something else too: the voice of 20th century America at midpassage, the spokesman of our heedless, surface-skimming spirit, the comic for the age of the production line, churning out interchangeable, immediately disposable jokes at an industrial pace. His comic persona was primitive. He was a wolf, constantly leering at pretty women, constantly rejected by them (until the last reel). He was a coward, hiding his ignobility under instantly collapsible braggadocio...
That was about it. And the finer critical minds were always dubious about him. "Bob Hope is a good radio comedian, with a pleasing presence, but not much more," critic James Agee wrote in his lament for the passing of comedy's Golden Age. Hope lacked Groucho's surrealism, Fields' misanthropy, Chaplin's soul, not to mention that element of the grotesque they all shared. Dapper and a trifle distant in his suit and tie, he also lacked their patience in building and extending gag sequences. Typical American that he was, he always wanted the instant gratification...
...probably never know if Bob Hope had any demons he dared not face. But action is--or eventually becomes--character. Lacking the anguish and self-doubt many great comedians come to feel about being funny in an unfunny world, he did something different: he became a bright, brisk anodyne for the torments of a brutal era. It was no small burden, and he carried it dauntlessly...
Sullivan said that Veneziano’s departure was a loss for the department, a statement Athletic Director Bob Scalise echoed...