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...Democrats using classic populism ("the people vs. the powerful") as a strategy to win the presidency [Jan. 12]. I say more power to them. It is the common people who work, pay taxes, fight our wars and cry out for fairness. Klein noted that the by-products of the 1890s' wave of populism were a progressive income tax, antitrust legislation and other reforms. Dean is proposing the same type of progressive political, social and economic agenda. Onofrio Perzia LeRoy...
...wisdom of the Democrats' using classic populism ("the people vs. the powerful") as a strategy to win the presidency [Jan. 12]. I say more power to them. It is the common people who work, pay taxes and fight our wars. Klein noted that the by-products of the 1890s' wave of populism were a progressive income tax, antitrust legislation and other reforms. Dean is proposing the same type of progressive political, social and economic agenda. ONOFRIO PERZIA LeRoy...
Like the first volume, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II (DC Comics; 224 pages), is set in England in the 1890s and features an all-star supergroup culled from the pages of late-Victorian pulp fiction. Among the characters are Captain Nemo (the mariner of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous alter ego, Mr. Hyde, and the sinister protagonist of The Invisible Man (another terrible movie). Writer Alan Moore and illustrator Kevin O'Neill pit them against the invading Martians of Wells' The War of the Worlds in a battle royal for the fate...
...city with rich history like Philadelphia’s, the remnants of Tacony’s past hardly seem worth preserving. People laughed at the Historical Society of Tacony when it first opened in 1990. Its collection, which consists of matchbooks from the 1920s, saw blades from the 1890s, and photographs of the factories productively belching smoke, does not draw giant crowds to the one-room museum. But the treatment of history in this industrial neighborhood is more passionate than anything in Philadelphia’s Old City...
...says. "Reading about suicide bombings in Israel, that speaks to me." Stewart, whose sexagenarian Master Builder lusts for a teenage girl, reports that, during a tour of some of the more prudish British towns, audience members walked out in protest. "It felt as shocking as it was in the 1890s. I rather enjoyed that!" Will the success of the Ibsen plays prompt the West End to put on more serious work? Duncan Weldon, producer of The Master Builder, is pessimistic. "We are seeing, if not the last hurrah of serious plays, at least the signs of a slowdown. Other forms...