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...trade with all nations last April, it was the first opportunity for free competition in a century. Says Massachusetts Congressman John Adams: "Foreign nations, all the world I hope, will be invited to come here. And our people [will be] permitted to go to all the world except the dominion of him [King George III] who is adjudged to be Nerone Neronior [more Nero than Nero]. I think the utmost encouragement must be given to trade...
...Other Victorians (1966) Marcus examines the ananymous erotic memoir "My Secret Life." In one scene where a female agricultural worker resists the sexual advances of the local squire, Marcus reads a significant change in social consciousness, the rise of the belief that class privileges should not afford sexual dominion over the persons of social inferiors. He connects this reading to a central theme of his book, the paradox that Victorian morality had a humanizing as well as a repressive side...
...town high above the slums, the thousands of radios and speakers crashing out reggae music far below can be heard. The reggae, these whites sense, is the martial anthem of the trapped lower class, and as it drowns their elevated residences, so will the poor someday extinguish their dominion...
...WORLD of Cockpit is not only barren, it is random and irrational. Tarden's obsession with power is a way of fighting the absolute dominion of chance and accident, a way (he reverses Faulkner's phrase) of surviving where most people only know how to endure. Tarden blinds an armed attacker by luring him into a room used for treating photographic plates with powerful quartz lights. That man, he says, was a fool for taking so few precautions. Tarden, on the other hand, hooks his feet around the legs of chairs so they can't be pulled out from under...
...books on the country ignore. Taken together, they only underscore the obvious: Ireland is a marvelously consistent affront to rationality. O'Hanlon knows this. What is more, he does not mind giving the things he deplores their due. In an exasperated chapter on the Catholic Church and its dominion over the republic, he cites Tocqueville's brilliant insight of more than 100 years ago: priest and peasant stood together against the common Protestant landowning enemy. Nothing that has happened since, including England's 1922 exit from the 26 Southern coun ties, has threatened that historic union...