On a local-TV community events calendar, I saw a notice for “Medea by Euripides.” “Humph!” I harumphed. “As opposed to what? Medea by Harvey Fierstein?” Then I realized: If they didn’t specify Euripides, you would have had an angry crowd of hundreds, if not thousands, enraged that it was not an appearance by Tyler Perry.
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Michael Potemra was a literary editor for National Review.
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