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...look at all self-conscious when they carved his head on a mountainside. Franklin was a cross between Will Rogers and Santa Claus. Jefferson was the great champion of all that was good-democracy, social justice, and the common man. Hamilton was Jefferson's bitter antagonist. He distrusted democracy, had no time for social justice, and thought the common man to be too common to bother much about. In the great pageant surrounding the birth of the nation, Hamilton clearly played the heavy...
...Miller does not linger tediously on these points. He is not a social reformer; his concern is with the individual soul. Modern civilization is, of necessity, his antagonist; but his interest is not a topical one. He knows too well the illusion of political and cultural utopias for which men will sacrifice anything, especially each other, while remaining imprisoned within their same old self-defeating view of life. The problem of value is an eternal one, and Miller knows...
From then on it was undeclared war, and Lacerda is a formidable antagonist. He returned to Rio and announced that Justice Minister Horta had invited him to join a Quadros plot to grab more authority for himself by sending Brazil's holdover Congress into permanent recess. As Lacerda's charges began to stir a fuss, Quadros dramatically resigned. It was seven years and a day from the resignation and suicide of Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, another President who had incurred Lacerda's wrath...
...results," because they can offer no positive antidote to unemployment and tenement housing. Nor in any of the three cities has there been the necessary citywide reaction against violence. Worst of all, as summer wears on and interracial ugliness increases, there is no practical way to counteract the crudest antagonist stalking the dark city streets. Said Chicago Police Sergeant Thomas Marriner last week: "Our real enemy is rumor...
Kennedy and Khrushchev kept their verbal guard high. Twice during the conversations, Kennedy tossed Chinese maxims at his antagonist. He quoted Mao Tse-tung as saying that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"; Khrushchev, straight-faced, denied that the peace-loving Chinese leader could ever have said such a thing. Kennedy also used the old proverb, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step," to make his point that a first step in progress on the road to peace should be made at the nuclear test talks. Struck by Kennedy's Oriental references...