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Scrapbook Little Brown Jug-Eared The key to a sane result in the November elections may be some combination of CNN's Larry King, Ted Turner, and Time Warner honcho Gerald Levin. For if they don't...
...Saw combat in Italy...
...Michelle Puhr of Westminster, Colo., suggests an Entertainment List-"you could review films, books, CDs, television shows, and the like, and provide recommendations...
...It has long been assumed that if Perot runs in 1996, he will draw the preponderance of his voters from the Republican party and help Clinton...
...But entertain the possibility for a moment that he is actually pioneering a new form of eloquence...
...Julius Caesar conquered...
...Be sure to keep it current and hip...
...Saw quite a bit...
...What happens when a Southern boy pushes reformation fundamentalism to its literal conclusion...
...Some testimonials: "Please, please keep the Reading List...
...The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy...
...Bush of Columbia, Md...
...The Reading List By an overwhelming margin, readers of The Weekly Standard have voted to keep the Reading List...
...Early polling suggests that, right now, he would draw equally from Clinton and the Republicans- a fact that ought to be worrisome to the White House, because Clinton needs to improve his vote tally over 1992 in any case, and can't afford to lose any voters to anybody...
...Got my dog, Emperor...
...Julius Caesar saw...
...A rabbi, a Mexican, and Pat Buchanan were in a lifeboat...
...we are paring it down to two because we don't like his first suggestion (it's from J.D...
...It couldn't possibly be any worse than Burden of Proof or Talk Back Live, and it would save some voters from making the mistake of casting their ballots for the guy come November...
...Larry King is complaining privately that Perot has been badgering him about making appearances on Larry King Live-where, you will recall, Perot first made clear his intention to run for president in 1992...
...John Bailey of Flower Mound, Tex., proposes 12 ideas, among them a "Weekly Scoreboard" of races and elections nationwide and "Conservative Joke of the Week...
...Nice dog...
...Like O'Connor, Percy was a Southern Catholic who turned what seems like a parochial, isolated background into the basis for universal tales...
...Hate to bring it up, hate to talk about it...
...And in ancient Rome: "Julius Caesar came...
...Reagan responded as only Reagan could: "Oh," he said, "Pat wouldn't say anything like that...
...The recent passing of former California governor Edmund G "Pat" Brown brought back a flood of political memories...
...Martin Luther King Has a Dream Bob Dole seems inarticulate...
...Listeners at the Virginia House of Burgesses would have heard, "Patrick Henry regrets it...
...Salinger...
...He does say, as did most people, that he had grown tired of the "find the deliberate error" contest, so we'll retire that and allow you instead to keep harping on our inadvertent illiteracies and inaccuracies...
...Interesting detail about that, incidentally...
...I have to admit I do read the 'List' and enjoy most of the subjects," says R.D...
...Hey...
...O'Rourke's excellent review [of Hillary Rodham Clinton's It Takes a Village] to bring up all the liberal books which have appeared in the last 30 years just to show the kind of empty-headedness prevalent throughout the Left...
...remember, this is a conservative magazine, and thus we are not necessarily believers in the "one person, one vote" principle...
...We Won the Lotto...
...A review of Perry Como's greatest hits should be balanced with a review of Coolio's latest CD, Matlock balanced with Friends, and so on...
...Got the votes...
...As should we all...
...In this day of computers, internets and heaven knows what else, we old-timers need all the reviews, lists, commentaries, anything that we can find...
...Perot has been calling King, looking for a guest-hosting slot, or to be interviewed, or whatever...
...Or from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial: "Martin Luther King has a dream...
...And for this week, we take our Reading List from Lawrence Dugan of Philadelphia, who offers "postwar American religious novels...
...Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, anyone...
...Your Reading List was both interesting and challenging because the books were actually valuable to read or at least know about," offers Glenn Koocher of Cambridge, Mass...
...What the hey, give him his own show, and call it Can I Finish...
...The ad carried the title "Man versus Actor" and concluded with Brown's admonishing a group of black schoolchildren, "Remember: It was an actor who shot Lincoln...
...The vote was 18 in favor, 3 against (though the "against" ballot cast by American Scholar editor and noted literary critic Joseph Epstein we gave the weight of six ordinary votes...
...Conquered though...
...Gonna get there...
...Writes Dugan: "The Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor...
...Actually, we're waiting for that collaboration between 101 Strings and the Artist Formerly Known as Prince (and Currently Known as a Jerk...
...I really, really like it," writes Edward Berenson of El Sobriente, Calif...
...only got one life to give for his country...
...It might be interesting in light of PJ...
...You Think Forbes Was Negative...
...If Perot can be satisfied in this way, there could be no more civic-minded task for Larry King and his bosses- Turner and Time Warner, which is about to merge with Turner's company-than to give Perot some air-time...
...Bush: Charles Reich's The Greening of America, Vivian Gornick's The Romance of American Communism, Robert Coover's The Public Burning, E.L...
...This one is about a New Orleans society boy-stock broker addicted to benign girl-chasing and film noir when he should be reading Kierkegaard...
...That's easy, Mr...
...Forgotten in all the gush was the fact that Brown ran one of the most despicable television ads in history- against Ronald Reagan, in the 1966 gubernatorial race...
...Okay, maybe Dole is just inarticulate...
...Promised land...
...Saw real spears flying...
...Talk about a blithe spirit...
...Today, we might refer to this as "hate speech...
...He suggests three...
...Journalist David S. Broder hailed him as "one of the true blithe spirits of 20th-century politics," "a visionary," and "the most amiable of companions...
...Doctorow's Ragtime and Loon Lake and just about anything else, Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar, Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance....The list could go on forever, and will...
...Remarked a former Brown press secretary, "It used to drive me crazy that Pat had no mean streak...
...Some readers did like the idea of some alternating lists...
...For if they don't satisfy Ross Perot's perpetual hunger for attention, he might be obliged to throw his hat in the presidential ring...
...Imagine if the great orators of history had used the Dole style: the choppy delivery, the random word associations, the tendency to speak about oneself in the third person...
Vol. 1 • March 1996 • No. 24
