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The President also proposed a constitutional amendment that would dissolve the Electoral College and its arbitrary powers, while preserving the system of electoral votes. In 1960, for example, John Kennedy won in both Alabama and Mississippi, but 14 electors from those states ignored the will of the voters and cast...
Fortunately, a toe-deep sampling of Molière is worth a skullful of most playwrights. Molière was the god of common sense. While tragedy moves from sanity toward madness, comedy moves from madness toward sanity. In his pride, the tragic hero overreaches human limits and dies. In...
When the audience first sees Irene Worth as Alice, the play's only woman, she is pretending to be an old hag, wearing a mask and leaning on a couple of canes. "How do you do?" says Gielgud to her. "How do I do what?" she says. That bit...
Marriage-Italian Style. Pathetically, the dying Filomena lifts her eyes to Domenico, the prosperous pastry merchant she has adored and been kept by for 20 years. "Do you love this woman?" asks an old priest. "You know about us," the merchant shrugs. Someone throws a pillow at his feet, he...
Sir: Your statement about "Buddhism's strident inner contradictions" is as naive as saying, "Once a man is an American, he must immediately recognize racial equality because the Constitution of the U.S. recognizes racial equality." Like Americans, Buddhists are human beings. Some of them practice the teachings of the...