Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
A scene from They Were Expendable, originally released in 1945, directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. The screenplay was adapted by Frank Wead from William L. White’s book. The poem recited by Wayne is Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Requiem”:
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Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic perform the funeral march from Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony at a 1978 concert in Vienna’s Musikverein:
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“Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. Ain’t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.”
William Faulkner, “The Bear”