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;void(0)) . . . RABBITS see: "ANIMALS" for related links Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. --Beatrix Potter (18661943) English author of children's books. _The Tale of Peter Rabbit_ [1902] - It was hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared and making straight for the president. --Press account of rabbit attack on Jimmy Carter [20 April 1979] (according to http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_019.html ) -- This morning I opened the refrigerator door and found a rabbit inside. Imagine my shock! After regaining my composure, I asked the rabbit what he was doing there. He said, "This is a Westinghouse isn't it? Well, I'm a wabbit and I'm westing."  . . see: "THE HUMAN RACE" for related links Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat. --William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (19242006) American clergyman and peace activist. Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African. --Bob Geldof (1954 ) Irish rock musician. In "Observer" [22 June 1986]. - The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: 'The work is done.' But just as one says that, the answer comes: 'The race is over, but the work never is done while the power to work remains.' The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be, while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is in living. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (18411935) Justice of the United States Supreme Court, legal historian, and philosopher. Radio address on his 90th birthday [8 March 1931]. - When I look out at this convention, I see the faces of America, red, yellow, brown, black, and white. We are all precious in God's sight the real rainbow coalition. --Jesse Jackson (1941 ) American Democratic politician and clergyman. Speech at Democratic National Convention, Atlanta [19 July 1988]. There are no 'white' or 'colored' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. President of the U.S. [1961-1963], Message to Congress on proposed Civil Rights Bill [19 June 1963]. Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. Quoted in Eve Taylor Parks and Lois F. Parker (eds.) _Memorable Quotations of Franklin D. Roosevelt_ [1965]. - [When building the transcontinental railroad] the ends of the two tracks neared each other, the race took on a ludicrous quality. Each company [Central Pacific & Union Pacific] adopted the questionable theory that it could claim a sort of squatter's rights to lay track as far as it had prepared roadbed without regard to where the other company's railhead was. Each dispatched teams of road graders far in advance of its track laying crews. As a result, the rival crews overlapped each other for almost 200 miles in Utah and Nevada, often working side by side. The death rate from accidents skyrocketed as workers set off blasting powder charges without warning their rivals. --_The Wild West_ Time-Life Books [1993] p. 84 ;void(0)) RACISM . . see: "ANTI-SEMITISM" see: "BIGOTRY" see: "CIVIL RIGHTS" see: "EQUALITY" see: "INTOLERANCE" see: "NARROW-MINDEDNESS" see: "PREJUDICE" see: "THE HUMAN RACE" for other related links All their [Hindus'] fanaticism is directed against those who do not belong to them against all foreigners. They call them mlechha, i.e., impure, and forbid having any connection with them, be it by intermarriage or any other kind of relationship, or by sitting, eating and drinking with them, because thereby, they think, they would be polluted ... By the bye, we must confess, in order to be just, that a similar depreciation of foreigners not only prevails among us and the Hindus, but is common to all nations towards each other. --Alberuni (9731048) _Kitab-al-Hind_ (Book on India) [1030]. [1030; 2002 edn.], in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004]. Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant South, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh! Here is fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop. --Lewis Allen [Abel Meeropol] (19031986) American songwriter. "Strange Fruit" [1937]. Recorded in 1939 by Billie Holliday. - It is a safe bet that few New Yorkers who work in Midtown or lower Manhattan realize that in July 1863 the streets they now walk every day were the scene of savage riots that left hundreds dead, countless buildings in smoldering ruin and the city in the grip of mobs demanding the overthrow of Abraham Lincoln. No set of events in New York's history was more terrifying or more aggressively forgotten. The riots were sparked by the introduction of a military draft to fill the depleted ranks of the Union army. The poor were particularly angry at a provision that allowed any conscript to buy his way out of the draft for $300, a year's wages for many workingmen. Behind the riots lay a combustible mix of racism, poverty and class resentment that was fanned into violence by pro-Southern Democratic politicians and journalistic demagogues. Not all the rioters were Irish, but enough were to give the mobs a Hibernian cast, nearly erasing the reputation for patriotic sacrifice that Irish volunteers had earned on the battlefields of the Civil War. [ . . . ] Order was finally restored by the arrival of seasoned troops rushed north from the Gettysburg battlefield. In all, at least 500 men, women and children died that week, including about 175 African-Americans. Five thousand blacks roughly 40% of the city's black population may have been made homeless, many fleeing to Long Island and New Jersey. --Fergus M. Bordewich reviewing Barnet Schecter's _The Devil's Own Work_ in _Wall Street Journal_ [18 January 2006]. - We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. --Supreme Court Justice Henry Brown, stating the majority opinion in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson [1896]; in M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.} _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 642. Cohan & Major explain: The court pronounced on the constitutionality of an 1890 act by the Louisiana state legislature providing for 'equal but separate' railway carriages for whites and non-whites. The facilities in question were certainly separate but by no means equal, yet the judgement prevailed for nearly 60 years. What I never understood to this day, to this very day, was how white people could have black people cook for them, make their meals, but wouldn't let them sit at the table with them. How can you dislike someone so much and have them cook for you? Shoot, if I don't like someone you ain't cooking nothing for me, ever. --Ray Charles (19302004) American pianist and soul singer. The Statue of Liberty hung her head; Columbia dropped in a swoon, The American eagle drooped and died, When Teddy dined with the coon. --Popular children's verse, after Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House in 1901; in Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster _The Century_ [1998] p. 33. Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never *hope* to go and get insulted. --Sammy Davis Jr. (19251990) American entertainer. _Yes I Can_, pt. 3, ch. 23 [1965] Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. --Frederick Douglass [Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey] (c.18181895) American abolitionist, reformer, and writer. In an address on the twenty-fourth anniversary of Emacipation in Washington, D.C. [April 1886]. If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Address to the French Philosophical Society, Paris [6 April 1922]. ^^ Position in society, economic opportunities, social mobility-all depended on race. Race was a southern obsession; somewhat less so (and less legally mandated) in the North. Race was also a key issue with regard to immigration and naturalization: these benefits were for white people only. The segregation laws were in full force in the first half of the century. Georgia law, for example, required separate schools for "white and colored races," and separation on railroads and street railways. An Arkansas law of 1903 required "separate apartments ... for white and negro prisoners" in all prisons and jails; and separate "bunks, beds, bedding ... dining tables." It was against the law to handcuff or chain any white man to a "negro prisoner." The law also required separate voting and tax rolls. In North Carolina factory owners were required to provide "separate and distinct toilet rooms" for workers, "said toilets to be lettered and marked in a distinct manner, so as to separate the white and colored males and females" four toilets in all. Moreover, these toilets had to be "separated by substantial walls of brick or timber." In North Carolina, as in the rest of the South, schools were, of course, segregated; but in this state, even books had to obey the segregation laws-books were "not ... interchangeable between the white and colored schools"; they were confined to the use of the "race first using same." All this was only the tip of the iceberg, of course. The school and railroad laws solemnly promised that the facilities, though separate, would be "equal" for the races; but no southern state took this promise seriously. In fact, equality had to be avoided at all costs. The system was a caste system; and any situation in which blacks and whites could be or would be treated as equal members of society, or in which, God forbid, a black could come out on top, was a violation of the code. Hence the prohibition against intermarriage aimed especially at black men who might want to take a white wife. Hence the 1915 ordinance of Fort Worth, Texas, that made it "unlawful for any white person and any negro to have sexual intercourse with each other, within the corporate limits of Fort Worth." Hence the Texas law of 1933 which prohibited any "fistic combat match, boxing, sparring or wrestling contest between any person of the Caucasian or 'White' race and one of the African or 'Negro' race." Elsewhere, of course, blacks and whites did fight in the ring; and Jack Johnson, a black man, had been heavyweight champion. When Johnson knocked out the "Great White Hope," Jim Jeffries, in 1910, a fight that generated enormous excitement, riots broke out all over the country; blacks in major cities North and South paid with broken bones for their "victory"; seven people died in the ensuing uproar. Parks and all public amenities were also strictly segregated in the southern states; whites had the best or only facilities; blacks were thrown a bone, or had nothing at all. The federal courts showed no sympathy for the black cause in the first decade of the century no signs of backing away from Plessy v. Ferguson; or of interfering with segregation in any way. A case in point was Berea College v. Kentucky (1908). Kentucky made it a crime to run a school or college "where persons of the white and negro races are both received as pupils for instruction." Berea College was interracial; it was fined for violating the statute. The Supreme Court saw nothing wrong with the law or the fine. In Chiles v. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (1910), a black man bought a first-class railway ticket from Washington, D.C., to Lexington, Kentucky. In Kentucky, where Chiles changed trains, he was forced into the colored section of the train, which he protested, claiming his rights as an interstate passenger. The Supreme Court cited Plessy and called the Kentucky rules "reasonable"; they reflected "the general sentiment of the community." What they meant of course, was the white community. Any avenues to political change in the South were effectively blocked. Blacks simply lacked political power. No blacks held state or county offices in the states of the old Confederacy. Very few blacks voted though not from apathy or choice. In the late nineteenth century, the southern states started the process of getting rid of black voters; they finished off the job in the twentieth. The states used every trick and stratagem in the books, and some outside the books, to keep blacks out of voting booths. Anyone who wanted to vote had to go through an obstacle course. In South Carolina voters had to pay a poll tax, own three hundred dollars' worth of property, and "both read and write any section" of the South Carolina Constitution. In Mississippi prospective voters had to be able to read sections of the federal and state constitutions, and also give a "reasonable" interpretation of what they had read. No blacks ever seemed to be able to pass these tests; whites sailed through routinely (or were not even asked). Troublesome or persistent blacks were given rougher treatment. As an Alabama official put it: "At first, we used to kill them to keep them from voting; when we got sick of doing that we began to steal their ballots; and when stealing their ballots got to troubling our consciences we decided to handle the matter legally, fixing it so they couldn't vote." --Lawrence M. Friedman (1930 ) _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002] Ch. 5 "Race Relations and Civil Liberties" pp. 112-114 ^^ Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant and this white waitress came up to me and said, We don't serve colored people here. I said, That's all right. I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken. --Dick Gregory (1932 ) American comedian and social activist. - You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Or people whose skin is a different shade. You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be taught before it's too late, Before you are six or seven or eight To hate all the people your relatives hate. You've got to be carefully taught. You've got to be carefully taught. --Oscar Hammerstein II (18951960) American songwriter. "You've Got to be Carefully Taught" [1949 song] - The arbitrary separation of citizens on the basis of race, while they are on a public highway is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with the civil freedom and the equality before the law established by the Constitution. It cannot be justified upon any legal grounds. [. . . ] We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above all other peoples. But it is difficult to reconcile that boast with a state of the law which, practically, puts the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow-citizens, our equals before the law. The thin disguise of "equal" accommodations [. . . ] will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrong this day done. --John M. Harlan (18331911) American Supreme Court associate justice. The lone dissenting opinion in "Plessy v. Ferguson" 163 US 537 [1896]. Do you really think that I will allow myself to be photographed shaking hands with a negro? --Adolf Hitler (18891945) German dictator. [summer 1936] (The Fuhrer was responding to a proposal by Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach that he be photographed with Jesse Owens, the black American sprinter and winner of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games.) In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 819. - I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. --Langston Hughes (19021967) American writer and poet. "The Black Man Speaks" in _Jim Crow's Last Stand_ [1943]. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? --Langston Hughes (19021967) American writer and poet. _Harlem_ [1951] - When they call you articulate, that's another way of saying, 'He talks good for a black guy'. --Ice-T (1958 ) American rap musician. In "Independent" [30 December 1995]. There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start to think about robbery, and then look around and see it's somebody white and feel relieved. How humiliating. --Jesse Jackson (1941 ) American Democratic politician and clergyman. Speech at Operation PUSH Headquarters [27 November 1993]. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. "Wall Street Journal" [13 November 1962], as quoted in Robert Andrews _The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations_, p. 508 [1993]. I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. Lincoln-Douglas debate, Charleston, Illinois [18 September 1858]. Palermo is the chief town of Sicily, and contains about 850 Jewish families, all living in one street, which is situated in the best part of the town. They are artisans, such as copper-smiths and iron-smiths, porters and peasants, and are despised by the Christians because they wear tattered garments. As a mark of distinction they are obliged to wear a piece of red cloth, about the size of a gold coin, fastened on the breast. The royal tax falls heavily on them, for they are obliged to work for the king at any employment that is given them; they have to draw ships to the shore, to construct dykes and so on. They are also employed in administering corporal punishment and in carrying out the sentence of death. --Obadiah of Bertinoro (c.I450c.1516) Italian rabbi. _Letters_ [1487-90] Today, racism is regarded as a crime if practiced by a majority but as an inalienable right if practiced by a minority. The notion that one's culture is superior to all others solely because it represents the traditions of one's ancestors, is regarded as chauvinism if claimed by a majority but as 'ethnic' pride if claimed by a minority. Resistance to change and progress is regarded as reactionary if demonstrated by a majority but retrogression to a Balkan village, to an Indian teepee or to the jungle is hailed if demonstrated by a minority. --Ayn Rand (19051982) Russian-born American writer. "The Age of Envy" (First published in _The Objectivist_ July-August 1971.) Now as to the Negroes! I entirely agree with you that as a race and in the main they are altogether inferior to the whites. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. Letter to Owen Wister [27 April 1906]. First for a few blocks the Irish kids threw rocks at me. Then the German kids threw rocks at me. Then the Eye-talian, then the colored, then the Mohawk kids . . . hell, even the Jew kids threw rocks at me, while they was runnin' away from the kids throwin' rocks at them. --Philip Roth (1933 ) American novelist. _The Great American Novel_ [1973] The only good Indian is a dead Indian. (at Fort Cobb, January 1869.) --attributed to Philip H. Sheridan (18311888) American army general. - I lived then in a small brick house in Manhattan, and, being for the moment solvent, employed a Negro. Across the street and on the corner there was a bar and a restaurant. One winter dusk when the sidewalks were iced I stood in my window looking out and saw a tipsy woman come out of the bar, slip on the ice, and fall flat. She tried to struggle up but slipped and fell again and lay there screaming maudlinly. At that moment the Negro who worked for me came around the corner, saw the woman, and instantly crossed the street, keeping as far from her as possible. When he came in I said, 'I saw you duck. Why didn't you give that woman a hand?' 'Well sir, she's drunk and I'm Negro. If I touched her she could easily scream rape, and then it's a crowd, and who believes me?' 'It took quick thinking to duck that fast.' 'Oh, no sir!' he said. 'I've been practicing to be a Negro for a long time.' --John Ernst Steinbeck (19021968) American novelist. _Travels With Charley_ [1962], pt. 4 - If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States; that is to say, they will owe their origin, not to the equality, but to the inequality of condition. --Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859) French historian and politician. _Democracy in America_ [1840] Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever! --George Wallace (19191998) American Democratic politician. Inaugural speech as Governor of Alabama [14 January 1963]. To separate [black children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. . . .In the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. --Earl Warren (18911974) American jurist, the 14th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [19531969]. Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education [1954] - And how will the new republic treat the inferior races? How will it deal with the black? how will it deal with the yellow man? how will it tackle that alleged termite in the civilized woodwork, the Jew? [..] And for the rest, those swarms of black, and brown, and dirty-white, and yellow people, who do not come into the new needs of efficiency? Well, the world is a world, not a charitable institution, and I take it they will have to go. The whole tenor and meaning of the world, as I see it, is that they have to go. So far as they fail to develop sane, vigorous, and distinctive personalities for the great world of the future, it is their portion to die out and disappear. --H.G. Wells (18661946) English novelist. "Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought" [1901] The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies. --H.G. Wells (18661946) English novelist. "American Journal of Sociology", vol 10, p. 11 [1904]. - Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen. --Woodrow Wilson (18561924) American Democratic statesman and President [19131921]. Speech before a group of Negro leaders, Washington D.C. [November 1913]. - Racist: (n) Someone who wins an argument with a liberal. --neocon proverbial ;void(0)) RADIO . . see: "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless. --attributed to Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) (19212000) American musician, comedian, writer, and first host of the Tonight Show. - Just the facts, ma'am. --"Dragnet" (19491957) The story you have just heard is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. --"Dragnet" (19491957) - You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. --Albert Einstein (18791955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. ^^ The FCC did regulate, eventually: on issues like dirty words. At first, the broadcast industry tried to police itself. In 1935, for example, CBS made public a set of "program policies" to govern advertising: no "unpleasant discussion of bodily functions," no advertising of "laxatives, depilatories and ... deodorants," nothing "slanderous, obscene, or profane." The National Association of Broadcasters had a code of ethical broadcasting from 1929 on. It was frequently revised. In 1946 the broadcasters' code included these older restrictions, and many others: no advertisements for liquor, or for "fortune-telling" and astrology; no advertisements for matrimonial agencies, or from "professional people" (doctors, dentists, lawyers). In 1948 Congress in its wisdom made it a crime to utter "any obscene, indecent, or profane language by means of radio communication." The terms were not defined. The standards of the FCC have been fairly Victorian. A disc jockey, Charlie Walker, who worked on station WDKD in Kingstree, South Carolina, ran afoul of the authorities for his bawdy rustic humor, and for using expressions like "let it all hang out." The FCC refused to renew his station's license in 1961. Radio, in the commission's opinion, was not like books or pictures: it is "available at the flick of a switch to young and old alike, to the sensitive and the indifferent, to the sophisticated and the credulous." This, presumably, meant that it had to be squeaky clean. Congress obviously agreed. In the 1990s Howard Stern, the "shock jock" of morning radio, got into serious trouble with the FCC trouble that resulted in hefty fines. When Stern described on the air how a guest at a party played the piano with his penis, the FCC uttered dark threats about loss of license.The permissive society, apparently, stops short at the gates of the airwaves. The commission intervened on this subject for a simple reason: it was one issue likely to send some part of the public into a lather. The commission could suspend licenses of stations that broadcast "communications containing profane or obscene words or language"; and these communications, as we have seen, were also a crime. Regulations, statutes, and court cases vacillated considerably on this delicate subject. There was, after all, a free-speech issue. At one time, the FCC promulgated "safe harbor" regulations: dirty words were permissible so long as they were spoken in the middle of the night, when presumably no children were awake. In 1988 Congress ordered the FCC to extend the ban to a "24 hour per day basis," though this was later repealed: The issue, on the whole, remains a live one. --Lawrence M. Friedman (1930 ) _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002] Ch. 18 "Getting Around and Spreading the Word" p. 561 ^^ That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. --Garrison Keillor (1942 ) American writer and radio host. "A Prairie Home Companion" [1974-1987], signature line Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! --George Lother, program intro for Superman radio show, first broadcast [12 February 1940] [Superman was created in 1934 by Jerry Siegel, a graduate of Glenville HS in Cleveland who had little luck with the girls. The fantasy character was also luckless but only as Clark Kent. Siegel's partner was Joe Shuster, who improved the character with tights, a cape, and a handsome face. They moved to NYC, faced hard times there, so they sold the character to DC Comics for $130. In June, the first Superman comic appeared and the popularity of it was so high that both men realized what a disastrous mistake they had made. Neither of them ever gained a share of Superman's earnings. Siegel, a clerk-typist, died in 1996. Shuster, a messenger, died in 1992.] Believe me, Ovaltine's got what it takes to help you be a leader in your gang. --"Captain Midnight" Radio serial from 1938 to 1949. Ovaltine took over sponsorship in 1940. - Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, strange beings who landed in New Jersey tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from Mars. [...] Remember please, for the next day or so, the terrible lesson you learned tonight: That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the Pumpkin Patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian it's Halloween. --Orson Welles (19151985) American motion-picture actor, director, producer, and writer. The "Mercury Theater of the Air" radio production of _The War of the Worlds_ [30 October 1938]. - Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North America and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press! Flash! --Walter Winchell (18971972) American journalist. (Habitual introduction to network radio spot, 19311956.) Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. --Terry Wogan (b. 1938) Irish radio and television broadcaster. In "Observer" (London) [December 1984]. - Duffy's Tavern was a place on Third Avenue and 23rd St. in New York City, where the "elite meet to eat, Duffy ain't here, Archie the Manager speakin'" Anyone who loved old time radio probably knows that phone patter by heart! Ed Gardner played Archie, the manager of Duffy's Tavern, and he was as "real" sounding as any character on radio, as he had grown up in the Big Apple. His use and abuse of language was "exempulary" the same type of local "parlese" that made The Damon Runyan Theater a favorite with New Yorkers everywhere. Gardner was a theatrical veteran, whose wife, Shirley Booth, well-known stage and screen actress, began on the show with him.  RAGE . . see: "ANGER" see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman, scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. --Colley Cibber (16711757) English actor and playwright. _Love's Last Shift_ [1696] Heav'n has no Rage like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. --William Congreve (16701729) English dramatist. "The Mourning Bride", III, viii [1697] Men in rage strike those that wish them best. --William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist. _Othello_, II, iii [16021604] There is not in nature A thing that makes a man so deform'd, so beastly, As doth intemperate anger. --John Webster (c.1580c.1625) English dramatist. _The Duchess of Malfi_ [16121613] ----- rancorous (adj.) ['rang-ker-uh s] Full of bitterness or rage, unforgiving, spite-filled. ;void(0)) RAIN . . see: "NATURE" for related links And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. --Bible "Genesis" 7:12 I walked around for a few hours. Around one-thirty it started raining lightly. Almost immediately the umbrella sellers turned up on the streetcorners. You'd have thought they had existed previously in spore form, springing miraculously to life when a drop of water touched them. --Lawrence Block (1938 ) American crime writer. _Out on the Cutting Edge_ The rain, it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella. --Lord Bowen (18351894) English judge. In Walter Sichel _Sands of Time_ [1923]. - It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (18031873) British novelist and politician. Opening lines of _Paul Clifford_ [1830]. & see: It was a wild and stormy night on the West Coast of Scotland. This, however, is immaterial to the present story, as the scene is not laid in the West of Scotland. For the matter of that the weather was just as bad on the East coast of Ireland. --Stephen Butler Leacock (18691944) Canadian humorist. Opening lines of "Gertrude the Governess; Or Simple Seventeen". - I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day. --Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount of Falkland (16101643) English politician, soldier and author. In Edward Bulwer-Lytton _Cheveley, or, The Man of Honour [1839], ch. XVI epigraph. It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. --Thomas De Quincey (17851859) English essayist and critic. _Confessions of an English Opium-Eater_ [1821] Though April showers may come your way, They bring the flowers that bloom in May, So if it's raining, have no regrets, Because it isn't raining rain you know, It's raining violets. --B.G. DeSylva (18951950) American songwriter. "April Showers" in the 1921 musical _Bomba_. Somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, There's a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. --E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (18961981) American songwriter. "Over the Rainbow," song in the 1939 film _The Wizard of Oz_. - Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. "The Rainy Day" [1842], st. 3 For after all, the best thing one can do When it is raining, is to let it rain. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) American poet. _Tales of a Wayside Inn_ [1863] "The Poet's Tale; The Birds of Killingworth" - The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. --Dolly Parton (b. 1946) American country music singer. Attributed in William Safire _Words of Wisdom: More Good Advice_ [1989] (With Leonard Safir) - kap goes back to his roots in a 1999 post to USENET: A few years ago Margaret & I went to Mesquite for the weekend. It's about 80 miles north of Las Vegas. I had been gambling too much at the time, so Margaret told me I couldn't gamble on the first day unless it rained. Well, it was a normal May Nevada day - about 100 degrees with not a cloud in the sky and no possibility of rain. Being part Mohawk Indian - my father's mother was 100% Mohawk - I went out on the terrace and did my interpretation of a rain dance. Three hours later it poured, and do I mean poured! I gambled that day & won about $400. I have tried to replicate my dance many times since but my efforts have brought neither rain nor, more importantly, money. - It rained hard enough to fill a wire basket. --attributed to Mike Royko (19321997) American journalist. ^ Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (18041869) French critic and literary historian: Although himself unpugacious, Sainte-Beuve was once compelled to fight a duel with pistols. At the critical moment, just as the order to fire was about to be given, it started to rain. Sainte- Beuve called for a pause in the proceedings while he went to his carriage and fetched and opened a large umbrella. He then faced his opponent with the umbrella held in his left hand and the pistol in his right. The opponent protested at the derogation of the dignity of the occasion. "I don't mind being killed," Sainte-Beuve responded, "but I do mind getting wet." --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard ^ Sir John will go, though he were sure it would rain cats and dogs. --Jonathan Swift (16671745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation_ [1738] Sweet April showers Do spring May flowers. --Thomas Tusser (c.15241580) English agricultural writer and poet. _A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry_ [1557] "April's Husbandry" end page | RABBITS - RAIN | RAP - READING | REAGAN (RONALD) - RECOGNITION | RED HEADS - RELIEF | RELIGION - PAGE 1 (A-M) | RELIGION - PAGE 2 (N-Z) | REMEMBERING - REPORTERS | REPUTATION - RESPONSIBILITY | REST - REUNIONS | REVENGE - REWARD | RICH (THE) - RIGHTEOUS | RIGHTS - ROLLER COASTERS | ROMANCE - RUDENESS | RULES - RUSSIA | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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