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...proposal is far less ambitious than the original bill by Hubert Humphrey and California Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins, which would have fixed 1981 as the target date for a 3% unemployment rate and guaranteed a Government-paid job to anyone who could not find work. Carter lukewarmly endorsed this idea during the campaign-after intense pressure from black leaders-but later backed away from it as inflationary. Unable to talk him into supporting a stronger bill, liberal Democrats and labor leaders finally agreed to the present compromise for two reasons: 1) it might enable Congress to pass an employment bill...
...covers the first 80 years of the Roman Empire, from Augustus to Claudius. Gibbon called Claudius the stupidest of all Roman emperors-a considerable statement, given the fact that in 500 years there were 81 in the class. But it was Graves' fictional conceit that Claudius only feigned stupidity to save his life in that murderous, fun-filled age. While, over the years, his relatives were running from dinner or orgy with various poisons in their gullets, Claudius munched serenely on, watching and waiting and watching some more. I, Claudius purports to be the product of all that observation...
Sian Phillips stands out as Livia, the wicked witch of the Tiber, who dominates all around with her icy, terrible beauty. Brian Blessed manages the difficult task of making Augustus, the founding father, appear both wise and foolish, the conqueror of the world who cannot manage his own family. Derek Jacobi's Claudius is half stumble and stutter and half genius, but convincing in every detail...
...unto himself, and his greatness or smallness rises or falls by that," he wrote to his girl friend Pamela Hansford Johnson. Pamela went on to write successful novels and marry C.P. Snow. Thomas went on to craft melodic verse and marry Caitlin Macnamara, a former playmate of Augustus John's. She was, said a London acquaintance, "like the figurehead of a ship, a fantastic poet's girl, a sort of corn-goddess." Of her marriage to Dylan, Caitlin wrote in Leftover Life to Kill, "We lived almost separate lives, though physically close, and passed each other with...
...David would quite like to be Prime Minister. And the Queen. And the Archbishop of Canterbury. But being only one would limit him a bit." Indeed. It might even be argued that if all three offices could be made into one, with David as all-purpose Augustus, Britannia would in short order rule the air waves and carve out a whole new empire based on entertainment, the late 20th century equivalent of territorial conquest...