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...American but ambiguous -- Hollywood face. Fine, grant the premise. But if you do, you are confirming that what we are dealing with is not a political but a cultural, perhaps an anthropological phenomenon. Those who think Olliemania signifies a nation rising to Mussolini (or Nathan Hale) are apt to see their paranoia (or exaltation) disappointed...
...originally set his ambitions in the light of an already God-perfected world. "Whatever is, is right," he quoted John Dryden; Pope used precisely the same line in "An Essay on Man." Washington, whose presence hovered over the Constitutional Convention like a muse, also advocated moderation: "We ((Americans)) are apt to run from one extreme to another," he wrote John Jay in 1786. As for Madison, the Constitution's principal and most elegant-minded architect, his views were straight Enlightenment dogma. "Why has government been instituted at all?" he asked. "Because the passions of men will not conform...
...weeks Kim has been under house arrest, his modest two-story residence in a Seoul suburb surrounded by 500 to 600 police. He and the eight aides confined with him can use the telephone and receive domestic newspapers, but no visitors are allowed inside. That isolation is an apt emblem of the country's weak and divided political opposition. A foe of virtually every regime since the South Korean republic was founded, the dissident parties have been persecuted by each military-backed government and denied any real share of power...
...completed a short run at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C., last week, have no black characters and concern wholly different kinds of repression and liberation. Pigs, about a Soviet World War II deserter, as yet amounts to an unfinished work. Road, if not as poignant or politically apt as Master Harold, is Fugard's wisest, most balanced and most nearly universal play...
Attitudes are changing as well, officials say. "What we are seeing is that people are less apt to hide behind the safety factor of calling it a gay disease," says Dartmouth's Turco. "A lot of people won't change their habits, but the information is there, and we are getting more of an educated society...