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...Liberals went into eclipse after the First World War, thanks to the capture of working-class votes by the party of trade unions. Labour's post- 1945 welfare state was in turn thumped in 1979 by Thatcherism, whose strong + defense policy discredited Labour's now defunct creed of unilateral nuclear disarmament. Today recession-racked Britons are unsure where to turn. They are listening more closely to the clipped, almost military-style speeches of a man who spent his formative years defending Malaya against communist guerrillas and newborn Kuwait against Iraqi claims in the 1960s...
...consider the first four letters in the title of Gladiator a "Rocky" wanna-be whose characters fail to provoke emotions as could Mr. Balboa or Apollo Creed, I ponder whether I am GLAD that I viewed this trash? No, I categorically declare. GLADness would have required obtaining a lobotomy along with my buttered popcorn upon entering the theater...
...Well, I didn't talk about race. That wasn't an issue. I don't think I even mentioned it, except I would like to have had anybody, regardless of their race or color or creed, vote for me. I didn't even mention race. I did say I was against busing but so did the other candidates...
Above all, You Never Can Tell rejoices in the delights of the improbable actually happening. Shaw manages to "stretch the long arm of coincidence" without stretching our credulity too far. The play should be great entertainment, as long as you keep the creed of Walter the Waiter in mind: "It's the unexpected that always happens--you never can tell...
...keep the class small, intimate and closed to the press will certainly create a good forum for free, candid discussion. But more broadly, Lee's method of restricting the class and the exclusive attitude he displayed toward students on Friday makes a mockery of the University's diversity creed...