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William C. Mullin '75, who ran for re-election to the Massachusetts State House of Representatives from Acton and Maynard, last night predicted he would win, but no votes in the contest had been counted...
Paraphrasing Lord Acton last weekend, Harrington observed that "absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely." But as he bids for power, it is Harrington who is doing the corrupting. His new strategy of alliances would perhaps give some political clout to a small clique of academics, well-meaning students, and old leftists. But the poor and working people to whom socialism is supposed to be responsive will be left out in the cold again...
Another of the country's leading designers currently is Acton Bjorn, 64, who heads his own firm and has designed such non-hauteur items as a beer bottle for the Moote Cordonnier brewery in France, an electric iron for General Electric, even a special lightweight toilet seat for use in hospitals throughout Scandinavia...
...POWER TENDS to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." John Acton didn't expect these immortal words to be the foundation for a rock oratorio of the twentieth century. Nowadays one would be tempted to deride anyone foolhardy enough to philosophize upon a money-and-corruption theme, to say nothing of consecrating six record sides to it. Well, if there is anyone in the realm of popular music that could make such an overworked story line appealing it's the Kink's Raymond Douglas Davies. His magic formula of piercing insight combined with a wry, subtle wit enables Davies...
...formidable Harriet, became more radical than he realized or wanted to be. In extending the common piety about freedom of speech to freedom of action, he committed an act of intellectual subversion for which the 20th century has paid with the impossible drunken dream of total freedom. Lord Acton's dictum -power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely-we have learned all too well. It is time, Professor Himmelfarb cautions, that we pay equal attention to another law: liberty too can corrupt, and absolute liberty can corrupt absolutely...