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fmyers
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Pageant

Postby fmyers » Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:47 am

David Mamet, the playwright and screenwriter, has described presidential campaigns as pageants. And the old writer William Allen White wrote a book on the topic entitled "Masks in a Pageant". As a way of comparing one of our fundamental political processes to a beauty contest, I think this word merits being featured in a daily good word discussion.

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Re: Pageant

Postby Slava » Thu Jun 15, 2023 2:07 pm

Mr. Mamet was writing in a bygone age. There is far too much mud for any pageantry to survive in our modern political stage productions.
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