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...best argument for the amendment sees it as a kind of Gordian stroke through the tangled indiscipline and unaccountability of Congress. Nothing less than a constitutional amendment, say its supporters, can break the deeply ingrained habit of profligate spending. The amendment would make it easier for Congressmen to say no. It would make them clearly visible when they said yes. It would force members to think twice about what is now automatic. Thus, argue the sponsors, the amendment would change the working premise of Congress, and begin to break the cycle of profligacy that has pushed the national debt beyond...
...hand of any noble in his court. Helena chooses Bertram. Aghast, the snobbish youth flees to the Florentine wars, leaving word that he will only acknowledge Helena as his wife when she secures the ancestral ring on his ringer and is pregnant with his child. To cut the Gordian knot of the plot, Helena achieves just that...
...chastises the President's simplemindedness in foreign affairs the metaphor probably reflects a shared and abiding American faith in a world we can solve. That geometric precision may not be attuned to modern life. The cube cliche recalls the Gordian Knot, that ancient interlocking challenge whose solution held the secrets of Asian conquest. Like Alexander bringing Hellenism to the heathen, Americans want to bear democracy and Western hopes and dreams to an undemocratic non-Western world...
...anything, good or bad, that he did. On the other hand, one aspect of determinism was that it gave humans the illusion that they had free will." Farmer does not resolve such dilemmas. He is too busy trying to get "all loose ends tied together into a sword-resisting Gordian knot...
...eldest sister, Esther Crampton (Maureen O'Sullivan), lives down the road with David (Gary Merrill), her elitist curmudgeon of a husband, who openly reviles her siblings and their menfolk as "morons." Naturally, each sister cuts through the Gordian knot of close relations only to find it intact - even if more loosely binding. However, Homer amusingly severs his umbilical cord...