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...wind-chill factor, and the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw is about to slip her berth in Sault Ste. Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale when she sank with a crew of 29. In real winter, which in these parts begins in late December and does not let up until April, Superior's blasts drive ice down...
...Edmund Burke cast an indignant eye across the English Channel at the French Revolution and wrote sarcastically: "Amidst assassination, massacre and confiscation, they are forming plans for the good order of future society." Burke was the prototype of skepticism about certain revolutions. Since the French Terror, history has paraded past too many Utopian dramas of transformation that ended by being as totalitarian, as murderous, as the regimes that they swept away-triumphs of hopeful zealotry over experience. Stalin turned the Russian Revolution into a self-devouring machine that crushed its own in the basement of the Lubyanka. Especially because...
Sweeney is a victim of injustice. Railroaded to Australia by Judge Turpin (Edmund Lyndeck), a lecher who coveted Sweeney's beautiful wife, Sweeney escapes and returns to find his wife seemingly dead and his daughter a ward of the judge. Sweeney vows vengeance. His neighbor Mrs. Lovett has preserved his razor, and the grisly culinary combine of Lovett and Todd begins operations. There's many a slit 'twixt the throat and the lip before the cup of revenge spills over...
...your article on Evelyn Waugh [Feb. 12], you mentioned Edmund Wilson's 1944 judgment on Waugh, but you didn't quote Waugh's reaction when in 1962 the interviewer for Paris Review asked him if he found Wilson's criticism helpful...
...convention on two distinct grounds. Sensibly, they say that the Constitution is no place to mandate a specific economic policy. If the budget-balancers succeed, they would join the distinguished company of slaveholders and Prohibitionists, the only other groups ever to write their interests into the Constitution. California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., the biggest national figure to support a convention publicly, wants to place a balanced budget requirement into the Constitution as a philosophical symbol of national discipline; but congressional budget-makers each year would have to work with that symbol, which could never be thorough enough to cover...