For the first fourscore and, oh, six or seven years after our fathers brought forth what they brought forth, the former owners of the new nation did not always regard it with the unmixed admiration and respect that the noisiest ex-colonists considered their due.
I thought… For the first fourscore and, oh, six or seven years after our fathers brought forth what they brought forth, the former owners of the new… The hippie has long been cast as an opponent to the punk, and an uncool one, at that — the no of the punk against the yes… Once Upon a River, by Bonnie Jo Campbell (Norton; $25.95).
The look and the emphasis of the occasion will have changed — measurably, for certain; astoundingly, perhaps — in the fourscore and seven years since 1922.
"2 Kings 19 35: And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses".
In short, Mellonism is as wrong now as it was fourscore years ago.
And while she would seem to have the stamina and theatrical chops of a woman several decades younger, she brings to Brecht's archetypal survivor the full, seen-it-all weariness of someone who has spent fourscore years on this planet.
And as the storms subsided men perceived that everywhere the days were hotter than of yore, and the sun larger, and the moon, shrunk to a third of its former size, took now fourscore days between its new and new.
In the ferocious Dies Irae they snapped and raged like fourscore angry dogs.
__ "2 Kings 19 35: And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses".
Continuing their fourscore-and-five-year quest to win a World Series, the Red Sox got off to a terrific start last night, beating the dreaded Yankees, 5-2, in the first game of the American League Championship Series.
The 100th anniversary year of Samuel Beckett's birth continues apace, bringing with it the New York premiere of John Griffin's "Godot Has Left the Building," an explicit homage to Beckett's best-known play, in a production by David Friedman and FourScore Productions at the Culture Project's 45 Below theater.
