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...Central America. Either the U.S. must have a strategy for the year 2000 or we run the grave risk of living through explosions of right-or left-wing authoritarianism. This requires that the weight of the U.S. must have a positive rather than a negative character. The Americans can say that the Panama Canal is vital to U.S. [security], and no one is going to argue with them. However, for the Panamanian or the Costa Rican in the street that does not justify the price of hegemonic domination by national oligarchies. One cannot say that what is happening in Central...
This is a self-knowledge that a society cannot be deprived of without grave consequences...
Nietzsche could hardly wait to turn 15; a new edition of Kleist was his birthday present. Rilke scribbled verses by the grave of the "dark, impatient Kleist." Wagner and Brahms agreed on few matters; Kleist's brilliance was one of them...
...ears ... But it was not until the hundredth anniversary of Kleist's death, on November 21, 1911, that the family overcame its sense of shame over this 'useless member of society, unworthy of any sympathy.' On that occasion they laid a wreath on his grave. The inscription on the ribbon read: 'To the best of his line...
...Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave...