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...past is still with us," admits Dean Rusk, "but it no longer sets the tone." It is the future that seems to inhabit the South. It is a rather surprising place for the future to be, and the region still wrestles uncomfortably with it, amid fears of homogenization...
what our seemers be," says Duke Vincentio (Sam Waterston) as he sets out, disguised as a friar, to play God like some sadistic schoolboy among the seamy souls who inhabit his city. Vincentio wants to re-establish law-and-order, but he leaves the governing to Angelo, a celebrated Puritan played like a young Robespierre by John Cazale. Angelo believes in absolute justice but soon declines into lechery and official murder. Meanwhile the city fathers can't even clear the streets of prostitutes. A black pimp, brilliantly played in high camp by Howard Rollins Jr., asks, "Does your worship...
Abraham Lincoln once said of Fourth of July celebrations that "we go from these meetings in better humor with ourselves, we feel more attached, the one to the other, and more firmly bound to the country we inhabit." It would have been difficult even a year ago, as the Bicentennial began, to credit the thought. But much has changed...
...policy almost every day during the debates of the last session. Inveighing against the "cruel civil war," 19 Lords signed a dissenting petition last October. Said they: "We [shall not] be able to preserve by mere force that vast continent and that growing multitude of resolute freemen who inhabit it, even if that or any other country was worth governing against the inclination of all its inhabitants." With typical wit, Fox made the same argument to Lord North in the House of Commons: "Lord Chatham [government leader when Canada was taken from the French], the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander...
Opposition newspapers, whose circulation has increased because of war news, are equally sharp. The St. James's Chronicle (circ. 2,000) calls the North ministry the most "obstinately cruel and diabolically wicked" ever to inhabit the earth. The Kentish Gazette daringly writes of the "corrupt influence of the Crown"-the King is traditionally immune from such criticism-and says that "our brave American fellow-subjects are not yet corrupted, but gloriously stand up in defense of their undoubted rights and liberties." In a pamphlet that has sold 60,000 copies, an almost unheard-of number, Dr. Richard Price...