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...cliche to say that we live in confusing times. But it is no help when history books tell us that America's "right" to expansion is merely its "manifest destiny." Given such euphemisms, it is little wonder that the reality of America's heritage remains obscure...
...Testament, especially Matthew 5:44 ['But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.']" At the center of the Process belief is the "Law of the Universe," manifest in Christ's belief that "as you give, so shall you receive." It is, for them, a law reflected everywhere. Those who have difficulties in life are only receiving what they have put into life; those who kill must expect to be killed. Along with this law of universal reward...
...validity of that teach-in's program is not an issue: the utter immorality of all that the participants represent is manifest and is taken as assumed. Our "liberal" critics perhaps share this judgment, but they condemn our abuse of their sacred, traditional liberty-freedom of speech. I assert, in reply, that no one has the right to commit the crimes which our government and its lackeys are committing in Southeast Asia. Such criminals-and such representatives of theirs as we saw on stage Friday night-forfeit any "sacred right" to mouth their lies in my presence. They must therefore...
...mention two other constitutional guarantees. Buckley, asked by a reporter about the "showmanship" involved in his weekly political talk show, replied, "I'm not nearly as histrionic as Franklin Delano Roosevelt was." He also distinguished his type of performance from Bob Hope's. That distinction was painfully manifest to viewers of Buckley's recent guest gig on Laugh-In, in which he matched limp quips with Rowan and Martin...
Both the musical and the review manifest a hip variety of neo-Know-Nothingism. Durang and Kaplan work in the same medium as the Nazi cartoonists of the Jews and the Amos 'n Andy caricaturists of black people. We wonder if Kaplan would have been equally delighted by a musical satire of the life and death of Malcolm X or a rollicking revue of the atrocities at Auschwitz...