"The Grouch" turns out to be more a triumph of scholarly excavation than a theatrical event.
The deciphering of the script, by Werner Morlang and Bernhard Echte, was a triumph of scholarly tenacity, and this edition, designed by Christine Burgin, is a triumph of the book-maker's art.
When I think back on this year, my mind easily drifts to the triumphs and scholarly successes that marked his growth things like scrawling letters or sounding out words or making a first friend.
"The publication of The Letters of Margaret Fuller, scrupulously edited and annotated... is something of a triumph, both as a scholarly service and as an act of restoration.
In the time since his death, there have been several books and scholarly articles on the conservative movement and its triumphs and tribulations.
Two recently completed small boutiques in New York are also triumphs: the American Folk Art Museum, an astute jewel box, and the Neue Galerie, a scholarly salon with the charm of a house museum.
For a long time this was because, at the movies as in the political and scholarly mainstream, slavery was something of a dead letter, an inconvenient detail in a narrative of national triumph, a sin that had been expiated in the blood of Northern and Southern whites.
The demure-looking, scholarly Dr. Brothers had first come to wide attention as a contestant on "The $64,000 Question," where she triumphed as an improbable authority on boxing.
Economic triumph appeared certain.
Triumph followed triumph.
