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...Haitian slaves and lead them to freedom in 1791 came from his reading of Rousseau and Mirabeau. When thousands of voteless, propertyless workers the length and breadth of England met in their reading groups in the 1820s to discuss republican ideas and discover the significance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, they were seeking to unite themselves by taking back the meanings of a dominant culture from custodians who didn't live up to them...
Among the minor characters, Julius Baker(a.k.a. John Brown) is worth watching out for.Played by Thomas Derrah, he portrays to perfectiona wimp with a social conscience. He is a walkingcontradiction, unable to reconcile his need to"affirm his manhood" with his belief in theequality of the sexes. Royal E. Miller, playingthe aviator Joey Percival is also riveting, as hetreads the fine line between gentleman and brute...
...Shaw's themes have been given greaterprominence in this production--the morality of sexand the "misalliance" between parents and theiroffspring. Shaw's emphasis on politics seems tohave been toned down, especially in therepresentation of the anarchical Julius Baker. Thedirector has given less importance to hissocialism than to his drunken revelry...
...FEMA's internal telephone directory, Mount Weather is referred to simply as SF, for Special Facility, and that is what it is called by all who are assigned there. "I was ((at the agency)) for almost two years before I heard the term Mount Weather," says Julius Becton, who headed FEMA from 1985 to 1989. The installation has no street address, merely a post-office box in Berryville, Va., a sleepy hamlet eight miles away...
...political or religious. And they have stable ties to family and friends, which give them a reason to live and comfort that they have not been forgotten. In captivity they are able to forge new bonds with other hostages and often make sacrifices for the others' benefit. Says psychologist Julius Segal, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health: "Prisoners have told me that the best thing you can do in captivity is share that last morsel of food. It brings you outside of yourself...