Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bark Eagle; he experienced some of the exhilaration that is drawing the crowds to the ships' parade. Wood remembered Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s line in Two Years Before the Mast: "There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship." He also learned, as Dana did, that "it is all work and hardship after all." Wood described a typical scene aboard the training bark...
...even in the puritan and evangelical tradition, the American sense of evil is curiously shallow and optimistic, more concerned with behavior (sex or drink, for example) than with the deeper states of sin. The devil can be banished, and evil can be fought; evil is seen almost as a mere "problem" to be solved. There is little sense that evil is a constant presence and inextricably mixed with good. That is why every new American generation seems to discover evil as if it had been invented only yesterday-and by the older generation. There is not much of the insight...
...that citizens must be free as far as humanly possible from government. There is about most Americans an attitude toward authority which is immensely bracing and which both dazzles and frightens people of other nations. Most Americans show a self-confidence which to others often appears to be mere swagger, but which is the characteristic of a country that never had either a formal aristocracy or a peasantry...
...better of the argument. Given total liberty, men seem too often to steer toward the state of savagery as if that were their true, natural home. There is also the possibility that reason in time will lose the religious and moral grounding it has today and turn into a mere mechanical instrument, unable to guide man through his most difficult problems. The Americans, however, may yet write a new, brighter chapter to man's story. While trusting in reason as no other men in government have before them, the representatives to Congress seem determined to hedge that trust...
...They face a "curs'd alternative, either to be murder'd without or starv'd within." With unmistakable relish, the playwright proceeds to detail the physical and moral collapse of the besieged enemy. Britain's sons of Mars, "the terror of the world," become mere "skeletons, our bones standing sentry through our skins." Speeches about an honorable defeat give way to scatological laments over the breakdown of their bodily functions. The play concludes with "huzzas for America" as the bony "blockheads" scramble aboard British ships for safety -"vomiting, crying, cooking, eating, all in a heap...