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There is, of course, an aesthetic case to be made against the national anthem. As Bass-Baritone George London indicates, the song is "impossible to sing if you're sober...the words do not automatically communicate their message." Another opera star, Enrico Caruso, found so little to understand in The Star-Spangled Banner that he devised a phonetic version: "O seiken iu see bai dhi dons erli lait/Huat so praudli ui heild at dhi tuailaits last glimmin..." As for those who do comprehend the message, what is there to like? Images of "the rockets' red glare, the bombs...
...episodes, the accessibility of its meaning, sentiments and broad comedy, Donald Newlove's second novel can be quite demanding. After finishing the last page, the reader may feel bound to answer a difficult question: Would he pick up hitchhiking 30-year-old Siamese twins, drenched and not too sober, carrying a trumpet, a trombone, a suitcase, a bag containing laundry and a bust of Ludwig van Beethoven...
...criticism of the speech came from various sides, including the New York Civil Liberties Union and proponents of New York's six-year-old, billion-dollar methadone program (TIME, June 14, 1971), who feel that Rockefeller has not given their scheme a sufficient chance. There were some sober appraisals of the Governor's proposals. Did he really mean to include hashish in the hard-drug category? Where was he going to get all the jails? Said Gordon Chase, New York City health services administrator: "He makes no distinction between kids and big-time pushers. What about...
However, to Quentin Bell, now in his 60's Virginia Woolf was no cult object. Somehow he managed to subsume whatever personal biases he possessed as her nephew, and to conduct a candid, sober inquisition into her personal history, even though in the process he examined members of his immediate family. In the hands of a less positive narrator and a less compassionate judge of exceptional human conduct, the biography-might have suffered from myopic and a tendency towards authoritarianism. Bell, with his memory of his aunt, is privileged to add the leaven of personal recollection...
...several works of Western literature and drama. Think of Lear and his Fool, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza and, in this rarely presented play of Moliere's, Don Juan and Sganarelle. The masters are in the grip of some consuming passion or obsession; the servants try to sober them up with an occasional cold splash of common sense...