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...keep coming back to Shakespeare? The hard truth is that most modern theatergoers can fully grasp only a fraction of his dense Elizabethan dialogue. Critics, moreover, seem intent on making the experience even more intimidating: they become stern schoolmasters when judging those who dare tackle the iambic pentameter. Alec Baldwin's brawny, quite watchable Macbeth at New York City's Public Theatre last winter drew testy reviews. Still the show was a sellout...
...fanaticism, Chesterton needs revision: tolerance is not just the virtue of people who do not believe in anything; tolerance extends only to people who don't believe in anything. Believe in something, and beware. You may not warrant presidential-level attack, but you'll make yourself suspect should you dare enter the naked public square...
...survivors," says Peretz, who bought the magazine in 1974, pointing out that the magazine currently enjoys a near-high in both circulation and advertising. "It's been a stunning success. I would dare to say that there is no journal of opinion that provokes the kind of discussion and dispute which the The New Republic does...
Here in pure form is the Clinton doctrine: peace through norms. Build the norm, and they--the recalcitrant of the world--will come. They may not sign, but they will be constrained by the moral force of an international consensus they dare not defy...
...telephone is torture. It doesn't ring, and his stomach grows holes. It does ring, and he can't dare get his hopes...