Word: melancholiac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hawkins has the misfortune of being up against Florida's beloved Governor Graham, a gung-ho campaigner who makes Ronald Reagan look like a melancholiac. He pumps palms and kisses babies with good-ole-boy abandon. He dresses in Cuban garb and struts down the streets of Little Havana handing out cigars and autographed photos. And, yes, he even sings his own campaign song: "You've got a friend in Bob Graham/ Let's send him to Washington and make Florida No. 1 . . . Bob Graham is a cracker/ Be a Graham cracker backer...
...characters into the forest of Arden, where the complex interplay of nearallegorical characters assumes the aspect, at times, of a philosophical inquiry. A banished duke holds court over a pastoral golden age in the forest; his men pluck the lute, sing, and sleep while Jaques the melancholiac provides counterpoint to their contentment. Into their hermetically enchanted realm bound a pair of lovers, whose parabolic approaches give Shakespeare an excuse to examine the nature of obligation and fidelity in love...
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