Word: hortons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jennifer J. Yeh. Currier House: Christine J. Chang, Anne L. Su. Dudley House: Rose Du. Adams House: Diana R. Graham, Carey M. Knight, Lynn D. Lu, Anna Heron More, Kamenna Rindova, Caraway Seed. Dunster House: Blythe Grossberg, Jessica B. Ludwig, Sylvia A. Parsons, Faith C. Salie. Quincy House: Laura Horton, Lisa M. Korn. Eliot House: Ashley Jufft. Mather House: Elizabeth McGuire...
...Reagan more real civility, even magnanimity, than Andover and Yale had bestowed on Bush. Reagan's rhetoric was simplistic but not mean. His "welfare queen" was a campaign exaggeration, but it did not rise out of the sewers of the mind that gave us a distorted history of Willie Horton. Even his opponents had to admit that Ronald Reagan was basically a nice man -- a thing harder for Bush's defenders to claim after the President thanked Congressman Robert Dornan for casting Bill Clinton as a traitor...
...Liberals lose presidential elections, conservatives win them. People look out over America and see over $1 trillion in transfers of money from producers to nonproducers, and it hasn't worked. And they see a continuing decadence. Most people don't look at Willie Horton and see a victimized black. They see an attempted murderer and a rapist, and they don't want people like that out of jail early.There's a seething undercurrent out there of people who are simply fed up with the intolerance of people on the left for people who wish to have decency and decorum...
...then Elvis died. A great career move, yes, but the death knell for the polity. Lacking an icon to unify the nation, successful candidates used symbols to divide and conquer. Reagan had his welfare queens, Bush his Willie Horton. That shit wouldn't fly when Elvis walked the earth...
...NOVEL'S VALUE IS WHETHer it has relevance beyond its time. John Steinbeck's OF MICE AND MEN (1937) meets that challenge. Its loser-heroes could be two of today's homeless horde searching for work, for value, for someone -- anyone -- who might find value in them. In Horton Foote's scrupulous new adaptation, John Malkovich is lumbering Lennie, whose frustrated tenderness crushes the things he would cherish; Gary Sinise is George, Lennie's protective pal; Sherilyn Fenn is the lonely wife held hostage by capricious fate. The credibility of their playing breaks through the familiar sanctity of a "classic...