Shakespeare on the Beach
Noah, Timothy
Shakespeare on the Beech Mr. Vice President, you're no Prince Hal. by Timothy Noah [T]he vice president and his wife made a surprise visit to the Cineplex Odeon Outer Circle Sunday evening...
...Exuent...
...maybe in the morning out on the fairway, and I know some like to criticize that but this is how I relax, and I don't intend to apologize, be apologetic of that...
...So they will get on in years...
...And that would certainly be unfortunate...
...Research assistance was provided by William Shakespeare...
...And let me say this...
...And the others—not dead, but back home in England, back in bed, in England—they will feel accursed for not being here and, frankly, their manhood will be something they may want to wonder about...
...And let me explain what I mean by this...
...And I'm not going to make any further elaborations about that...
...But I view the situation as much different...
...You're impacted with a greater share of honor than would otherwise be the case...
...But you'll still remember what you did today, because today is going to be very memorable...
...0 that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work today...
...But that is past, and this is future...
...We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
...And you, they, will become forgetful and perhaps an Alzheimer's situation will develop...
...It will happen, and that's unfortunate...
...We have a very strong orientation along the lines of thinking toward the future...
...So in the future when this time of year rolls around again, as I am confident it will, those of us who are fortunate to survive today will stand and salute whenever they hear the name Crispian...
...Crispian, or if you prefer, Crispian...
...Let me say this along the lines of response to your—while it's true that with more people it's easier, less risk of, you might be slain in battle...
...Who said that...
...Crispin...
...Once more onto the beach...
...So, as we look to the future, we see that some of us will be blessed to outlive this day and come safely home, as I came after—and I do not apologize and I served my country well in the National Guard...
...So you will get media attention...
...I don't mean the ones who die, and of course we don't know which because that will play out...
...by Timothy Noah [T]he vice president and his wife made a surprise visit to the Cineplex Odeon Outer Circle Sunday evening...
...And this is future...
...Now, as you know, today is the Feast of Crispian...
...Few brothers but happy brothers, happy band, happy bandy band...
...In other words, few is better than happy...
...But as I was saying, we have to work on a holiday, and none of us prefers, we would rather another day, and we are here...
...That is, St...
...So I would ask you to wish, prayerfully wish or pray or whatever your faith may be, that we have not one man more and let us stick to the numbers we've got now...
...They're good numbers, English numbers, English, English numbers...
...West...
...If you live, I view this as it's better if there are fewer...
...If we are marked to pass on, well, that's it...
...Then you take off your shirt and show off your scars...
...Enter the King...
...And that is what this great country is all about...
...Elaine Crispian...
...And famous, because when you're a war hero, that gets attention in the media...
...But one thing about my generation, our generation, is looking to the future...
...You will get old—I don't mean the dead ones, but the others because they're the future which is what we are, where the concern is really what it's all about...
...And every year on Saint—on this day, when we revisit it in future years, many or rather few of us will, some, all of us, we will think the same thought...
...You live, more die, and I know that's unfortunate, but not for you...
...Or some prefer Crispin, it amounts to the same thing because they were Roman brothers as I'm sure you know, God-fearing Christians and freedom fighters and entrepreneurs in the shoe industry, which was important to, important part of the manufacturing sector during that time, now past...
...It has to play out...
...You who are here today...
...Lookit, these things occur...
...But if you live, many years from now, when you are a senior citizen, every year you will—your neighbors will come to your house and, you will say, "Tomorrow is Elaine Crispin...
...The English camp at Agincourt.] Enter Gloucester, Bedford, Exeter, Erpingham with all his Host, Salisbury, and Westmoreland...
...It's a day I like to spend with Marilyn and the kids, Timothy Noah is a contributing editor of The Washington Monthly...
...Dan Quayle and his wife Marilyn were coming to see "Henry V." —The Washington Post "Personalities" column, January 9, 1990 [Act IV, Scene iii...
...We band together as brothers, bandy brothers, happy brothers...
...I take a more forward-looking, uh, look at this situation...
...And that would I think be a very rewarding and patriotic experience...
...And that thought is this...
...Happy is happy, band is band, few is few...
...I don't choose to dwell on that...
...K. Danf Huh...
Vol. 22 • March 1990 • No. 2
