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Stone's version of that liberal vision is woven of three ideals: justice, libertarianism, and pacifism. He values social order as a guarantee against violence and deplores the "urge to reach for the dagger" on both the right and left. In his essay on Kennedy's death "We All Had a Finger on That Trigger," Stone writes: "It is not just the ease in obtaining guns, it is the ease in obtaining excuses, that fosters assassination...
...jittery Western financiers, the huge cash surpluses built up by the Arab oil-producing nations look like a Khan-jar (Arab dagger) poised at the heart of international monetary stability. By shifting their funds from one currency to another, some moneymen fear, the sheiks could precipitate an unending round of monetary crises. Two weeks ago, it appeared for a moment that the Arabs had decided to unleash just such a monetary offensive. When highly exaggerated word that the Economic Council of the Arab League had voted to withdraw the estimated $10 billion that Arab nations have on deposit...
...Golf district, known for its fine houses and the rending beauty of the girls who parade each Saturday along Providencia Avenue, machine gunners lay prone under budding fruit trees. One soldier, submachine gun at the ready, dagger slung from his shoulder, was being besieged by a comely Chilena who kept threatening to put a flower in his dagger sheath. He resisted. But when I passed the spot a few minutes later, I noticed that the soldier had lost the battle, although perhaps won another...
...marvelous piece of business in her "unsex me here" soliloquy. When she summons "thick night" and the "smoke of hell," she grabs the pointed crucifix hanging around her neck and spits on it. At the words "my keen knife" she inverts the cross, turning it into a lethal dagger. This is an electrifying moment, altogether fitting for a play in which "fair is foul" and everything is topsy-turvy...
Weaver's final duel with Macduff is much too tame, particularly for those who saw Christopher Plummer's breathtaking swordplay in Cyrano recently. At the end, he pulls out a dagger and seems about to commit suicide when he falls off a parapet; suicide is something no real Macbeth would entertain...