Around the turn of the last century, there was a great ethnic theater movement in places like New York, Boston, and Philadelphia -- where lots of immigrants settled. (Supposedly -- probably apocryphally) at one such performance, the famed Jewish tenor, Morris Kaplan, keeled over in the middle of an aria. The management brought down the curtain and the impresario stepped out to inform the audience that they should leave and would get coupons for another performance at the box office, because Kaplan had died. >From the audience, a woman called out, "Give him chicken soup." The impresario said, "Madam, perhaps you don't understand. Kaplan is dead. Chicken soup can't help." The woman answered, "It couldn't hurt."
The NID is dead. UCD, itself, may be in a lot of trouble. Wendell Lewis certainly is. Neither chicken soup nor discussions on this listserv can help any of them. Al Krigman Left of Ivan Grozny ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
