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Cultural Literacy 401 |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Lee Congdon |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 2,387 Words, 14,557 Characters |
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THE TOURNAMENT
A Novel of the 20th Century
John Clarke
New York: Hyperion, 2003
280 pp., $19.95
Sometime in the late 1960s, a friend insisted that I get hold of Beyond the Fringe, a recording of the comic revue that opened at London's Fortune Theatre in 1961. Nothing could have prepared me for what I heard when I placed it on my turntable. I do not think I exaggerate when I say that Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore were geniuses, and that they made very definite cultural demands upon their audiences. Only those familiar with Shakespeare's plays, for example, could appreciate fully the inspired nonsense that was their send-up of As You Like It, "So That's the Way You Like It."
Even more of a mystery for those whom the PC media would call the culturally...
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...st," Orwell begins his post-match comments, "that when the heroes and highlights of this tournament are recalled, attention also be given to remembering the monsters, the failures, the infamy and the disgrace ... " He is unable to continue. Like Clarke, Orwell recognizes that a high level of culture did little to shield the millions who suffered and died during one of history's bloodiest eras.
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