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...sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck...
...prologue to an earlier Marlowe play, The Jew of Malta, the playwright declared: I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Faustus holds the same views, but this time the play moves in exactly the opposite direction. Here religion is a dominion of implacable law reducing man and his will to a broken toy; and it is knowledge that is tainted with evil. Through Satan's agent Mephistophilis (James Ray), the learned Dr. Faustus (Lou Antonio) makes a pact with the Devil. He wills his soul to eternal damnation for 24 years...
Moore is proud of being "ruthless" when it comes to protecting his dominion. He once got a local CORE group to cancel a demonstration by threatening to send a gang of girls through a CORE picket line. "You won't look very good fighting girls," he warned. And when a Harlem envoy came to Philadelphia to organize a rent strike, Moore gave the man 24 hours to get out of town. The man got. It was Moore who instituted the court battle to stop the city's famed New Year's Day Mummers Parade participants from wearing...
...Nonsense. During the 16-day independence conference in London, Kaunda so impressed the Colonial Office that Northern Rhodesia will be the first British-ruled territory allowed to make the jump to full independence without the usual period of dominion status under the symbolic tutelage of a Queen's governor-general. Under a new constitution that includes safeguards for individual rights, Kaunda will take over as President...
...Today. How ingenious such theorizing. But death has no dominion in rock 'n' roll. Songs that hint of a teenage demise do so with a bright insouciance, as if the singer imagines death to be only the flip side of life. In surfin' music-which is just rock 'n' roll dressed for the beach-sudden death is treated as a nuisance hardly worse than rain...