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...factories freed people to invest the clothes with personality. By breaking down the conventions of dress that defined the public image in 18th century London, industrialism let loose the private in the public realm. The emptiness of this seemingly sophisticated explanation evokes the images of the emperor in his new clothes...
...dominate his public conception. But when in his conclusion Sennett offers as an alternative to `60s communalism a vision of the controlled clash of private interests, and when he presents this vision as a return to the happier days of public man, then it is time to call the emperor naked. Rather than demanding that individual wills be subordinated to the greater good in the old res publica, Sennett claims in his new vision to maintain the distance between public and private. But his argument that we must return to a kind of open market where "rules" and "conventions...
...Joanna Richardson, a British specialist in 19th century French authors, shows that it was politics more than literature that made Hugo a living myth. After Louis Napoleon Bonaparte betrayed the republic in his 1851 coup d' état, the writer, originally a Bonaparte supporter, raged against the new emperor from exile. When Napoleon III finally fell in 1870, Olympic returned a hero...
...Ethiopia, Somalia's neighbor and archenemy. His presence in Addis Ababa must have pleased the current military boss, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, since Castro is the first head of state to visit Ethiopia since the country's squabbling junta (known as the Dergue) dumped the late Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. Mengistu was believed to have asked Castro for military aid, but there were no indications of how Castro responded. Even more intriguing were rumors that Fidel was attempting to mediate the longstanding territorial quarrel that divides the Marxist regimes in Somalia and Ethiopia. Observers speculated that...
...Paul stood trial before him (Acts 18), so much of the chronology of Paul's career has fallen into place. A much larger event was the wave of terror against Christians that occurred between the burning of Rome (July 64) and the suicide of the Emperor Nero (June 68), during which both Peter and Paul probably died. Robinson thinks this is the logical context for New Testament books that deal with persecution, such as I Peter and Revelation. (A tantalizing detail: Revelation 17:10 says that five kings "have fallen." The sixth Roman Emperor, Galba...