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from: Norman Podhoretz

Re: Honor and Glory and Breakfast

Posted Thursday, Feb. 11, 1999, at 11:38 AM ET

True; and so for that matter did Shakespeare himself on occasion, as through the character of Falstaff. But Falstaff in the end is banished by the heroic king Henry V. Furthermore, the movie evokes a world in which entertainment was in principle indistinguishable from art, and shows us ordinary people sitting enthralled by the poetry of Romeo and Juliet. This too bespeaks a longing for glory--another kind of glory, to be sure, but one that often goes together with the first, as witness ancient Athens and England in the 19th century.

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from: Norman Podhoretz

Re: Honor and Glory and Breakfast

Posted Thursday, Feb. 11, 1999, at 11:38 AM ET
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Midge Decter is an essayist and social critic who publishes in a variety of magazines and appears most frequently in Commentary. Norman Podhoretz is editor at large of Commentary magazine and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His latest book, Ex-Friends, was published this month.
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