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...left for Leo Tolstoy to underscore most aptly the mundane reason for mankind's taste in viewing and reading. Wrote he: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Niceness, in other words, however admired in real life, is inherently repetitious and boring as a subject of fiction. Is it possible that the very weakness that makes the human species difficult if not evil is the main thing that makes it interesting? If so, that is scarcely the only contradiction in the human drama. Alas, one may, plausibly enough, wonder whether humankind...
...firm's technology, she argued, the death was work-related and should be covered by worker's compensation benefits. The widow and her two children won a ruling awarding them $167 a week for the next ten years -roughly $84,000 in all. Reasoned Administrative Law Judge Leo LaPorte: "Man is by nature a social creature. It is not reasonable to expect that an employee who is on assignment to a distant land will simply stare at the walls of his hotel room after work hours...
...enterprising 19th century Corsican named Angelo Mariani had the notion of blending the coca leaf with fine wine, which he marketed under the name of Vin Mariani. Mariani collected endorsements from Popes Leo XIII and Pius X, President McKinley and the Kings of Spain, Greece, and Norway and Sweden, as well as such literary luminaries as Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas and Emile Zola. French Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, designer of the Statue of Liberty, swore that if he had only savored Vin Mariani earlier, he would have built the old girl hundreds of meters higher...
...short answer is that Americans are ambivalent and unpredictable on the subject. No one expects the leader of the world's greatest democracy to live in Neronian excess: so far, no President (except maybe Warren G. Harding) has approached the White House with the attitude of Pope Leo X: "God has given us the papacy. Let us now enjoy it." On the other hand, as Carter proved, modesty of life-style does not automatically capture the nation's heart: James K. Polk brought a Presbyterian rectitude to the White House (he and his wife Sarah banned dancing...
...Woolf was a bit put off by the prospect of bedtime congress, Leo Tolstoy was positively appalled. "Man can endure earthquake, epidemic, dreadful disease, every form of spiritual torment," he said. "But the most dreadful tragedy that can befall him is and will remain the tragedy of the bedroom." Tolstoy went so far as to write a book advocating celibacy, The Kreutzer Sonata, but his wife had what she angrily called "the real postscript." Not long after publication, she became pregnant...