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Damage is the story of one man's obsession that eventually destroys his family and his life. The main character, who remains unnamed, is a respectable English doctor and politician, ostensibly a good father and husband. His bourgeois bliss comes to an abrupt end when Anna Barton, the fiancee of his son Martyn, enters our hero's life...
...very much respect the judgment of those 80 first-years who recognized the bliss of Currier life. And I very much pray that they will be assigned to one of the other three houses that they listed. In my eyes, that's the only way to save the Class of '94--and, for that matter, Currier House...
...example, when the two simpletons cowered before the wrath of Master Arnolphe, Burrell had them perform more acrobatic stumbling than the Lowell JCR stage should have to endure. The most abominable aspect of their performances was the pseudodialect of the male servant, Alain (Bliss Dake). One could never be sure whether he derived his verbal twang from the deep South, southern California or the center of London. The accent quickly became so distracting that the servant follies never attained their potential hilarity...
This--although it was not, in fact, an attitude Yeats was entirely comfortable with, as I will show later--is, for the most part, the way our society likes its poets and humanists--preoccupied, in a state of near anaesthetized artistic bliss, with "pleasing young girles and old men," as far removed from the eyes (and, more dangerously, the ears) of the average citizen as humanly possible. Licensed, in other words, and ignored...
What frightens me is how many Americans seem to accept this government rhetoric without any meaningful questions whatsoever. Polls show the majority of Americans support the war effort and have no problem with the current press restrictions. Ignorance is bliss, as long as your neighbors are doing the dying...