Word: camelot
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...America wasn't ready for Camelot, and Mary was cast as an out-of-touch princess who picked fabric swatches while, on the battlefield, the Republic burned. Yet perhaps no woman in American history had a better excuse for trying to boost her mood with a little retail therapy. Mary had already lost a mother and a son, and was about to lose another son, as well as her husband. She seemed to know that too, possibly as a result of her excursions into the mysterious spirit world, a popular pastime in the traumatized living rooms of the Civil...
...early '60s were heady days. Camelot, civil rights, new frontiers, war on poverty--and a social cure for mental illness. We would close the mental hospitals, empty the snake pits. Washington would create, ex nihilo, an entirely new system of care, planting mental health centers in every hamlet. New wonder drugs would control patients' symptoms. The community would welcome back its lost souls...
...choice of Edwards is like a breath of spring. His good looks bring back memories of President John F. Kennedy. Is it possible that we could once again experience Camelot? The race between Kerry and Bush could be decided by the two vice-presidential candidates. Edwards is young, charismatic, intelligent and ambitious and is from a working-class family; Dick Cheney comes across as old, stodgy, curmudgeonly and boring. His health is a real negative. Keep in mind that the Vice President is just a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Now, who do you want in the line...
...choice of Edwards is like a breath of spring. His good looks bring back memories of President John F. Kennedy. Is it possible that we could once again experience Camelot? The race between Kerry and Bush could be decided by the two V.P. candidates. Edwards is young, charismatic, intelligent and ambitious and is from a working-class family; Dick Cheney comes across as old, stodgy, curmudgeonly and boring. His health is a real negative. Keep in mind that the Vice President is just a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Now, who do you want in the presidential line...
...weather is always inclement, the protagonists are all muddy when they're not bloody, King Arthur's Christianity is muscular but joyless, and Guinevere is often daubed with blue paint. No, folks, we're not in Camelot anymore. Mostly we're in and around Hadrian's Wall in Britain at the dawn of the Dark Ages, with the Romans in retreat, the Saxons advancing and the severely downsized Knights of the Round Table defending civilization as they know it. Conditions in this world are not visibly much different from barbarism. Life on this frontier is rude and basic, though Guinevere...