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...young men . . . They don't care no more for firecrackers on the Fourth of July." He blamed all Tammany's troubles on civil service reform, but he foresaw a day when the Tiger would rise again. Said he: "I see a vision. I see the civil service monster lyin' flat on the ground. I see the Democratic Party standin' over it with foot on its neck and wearin' the crown of victory. I see Thomas Jefferson lookin' out from a cloud and sayin', 'Give him another sockdologer: finish...
Golden Water. A mere five centuries ago, long after the Mongols were driven out, Peking was rebuilt. Ming Emperor Yung Lo followed his astrologer's plan to make the city a geomantic portrait of No Cha, a three-headed monster with six arms. Its heads became the main gate, its intestine an open gutter and its navel a well. When Yung Lo had finished, Peking was a series of walled cities within cities, like a Chinese puzzle, box within...
...renaissance of American dramatic writing: producers of plays need playwrights -good, bad or mediocre-even more than playwrights need play producers. The reason for this unprecedented situation lies in the difference between the traditional theater, which may remain closed or run one play for months, and TV, the electronic monster that gobbles up material 18 hours a day every day of the year...
...need for writers of quality is matched by an even greater need for writers without it (to feed the insatiable electronic monster). At the summit of the giant networks, the executives sound very much alike. Says CBS's President Frank Stanton: "This is the time for writers. I think they're going to inherit the earth." Then he adds: "Mass circulation is the important thing, and you pay a price for it. But formula shows often have a professional quality that so-called quality shows wish they had." NBC's President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr. readily...
...shapes up in The Kaiser of Prussian-born Biographer Joachim von Kürenberg is a vastly different fellow from the monster who was hanged in effigy throughout the U.S. in World War I. It is not simply that the author remembers Wilhelm II's good points; it is the fact that he had so many weak ones. Kürenberg's book makes the going a bit sticky for people whose knowledge of modern European history is shaky, but it will bring many a surprise to readers who vaguely remember Wilhelm as the Iron Hohenzollern...