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...changes. They sought to maintain the "integrity" of the Union, to preserve old architecture because it was old. They recalled their student days with such fondness that they sought to petrify it. They did not recognize the need for structural change, and mistakenly placed their priorities with Harvard's ancien regime...
Like good revolutionaries, top Republican lawmakers and thinkers see this crackdown by the ancien ragime at the IRS as a sign of its desperation and imminent collapse. "When you get to the point where you have government snooping in people's drawers and talking to neighbors, you know that something has gone desperately wrong with the system," says Stephen Moore, a budget expert at the libertarian Cato Institute. Representative Bill Archer of Texas, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, observes that the irs stirs more resentment than ever because "it has been given more power, more penalties...
...Sellars' interpretation is Arkel (bass Kenneth Cox), who is prominent here as in few other stagings. Arkel represents an ancien ragime that refuses to cede power, quashing the aspirations of the younger generation, represented by the angry, violent Golaud (bass-baritone Willard White), his younger half brother Pelleas (baritone Francois Le Roux) and Melisande (mezzo Monica Groop), the mysterious girl Pelleas meets in the forest and brings home as his bride. The Simpson connection was coincidental, but the color-blind casting of White, who is black, creates an unintentional, tabloidy frisson...
...contrast with the members of the ancien regime was startling. The Republicans of the 104th Congress are largely white, male and strikingly young. The white males among the devastated Democratic ranks are older and tired looking. As Gingrich prepared to give his surprisingly conciliatory opening address, several vanquished Democratic committee chairmen -- among them former Foreign Affairs chairman Lee Hamilton of Indiana -- paced the back aisles, pale ghosts of caucuses past. One chose to look at the bright side. As chairman, he said, "you're dealing with a bunch of little rug rats whining about what they want and what they...
...sidelong and subliminal way, men have become the Evil Empire, or, anyway, the ancien regime. We are "They," "Them," "the Enemy." The "manly" virtues (bravery, strength, discipline and, egad, machismo itself) remain admirable only by being quietly reassigned to women -- to Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton...