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...lasted nearly 30 years, was an unmitigated disaster. "If we had not ostracized the Chinese, we might have avoided the war in Vietnam," says a prominent Republican foreign policy expert, referring to the American misreading of China's control over the Vietnamese communists (China and Vietnam proved to be mortal enemies). "But when has it ever helped to refuse to talk? Why voluntarily reduce your influence over an adversary...
Sept. 11 brought home a terrible truth. It revealed a mortal enemy, even more fanatical than the vanquished scourges of the 20th century (fascism and communism), lying this time in the bosom of the Arab world. It was temporarily housed in Afghanistan, but it was not Afghan. It has non-Arab Islamic adherents, but it is not pan-Islamic. It does not speak for all Arabs, but it does speak to Arab frustrations, failures and fantasies, what Fouad Ajami has called "the dream palace of the Arabs...
PART 1.The Lord's Prayor, The Customary Chant"O gladsome radiance" (Vespers), A. Kastalsky"When I, an unrighteous man" (Lent), A. Malashkin"Today a Virgin" (Christmas Collect Hymn), G. Lvovsky"A Mercy of Peace: we praise Thee" (at the Consecration: Liturgy), V. Kalinnikoff"Let all mortal flesh" (Great Saturday), Archpriest TurtchaninoffThe Creed, A. Gretchaninoff"Hear my prayer, O Lord" from Psalm CII), A. ArkhangelskyPART II."Bless the Lord, O my Soul" (Liturgy), M. Ippolitoff-Ivanoff.The Cherubimic Hymn (The Great Entrance at the Liturgy), P. Tchaikovsky"My soul shall exault in the Lord" Liturgy), M. Balakireff"God is with us" (Christmas...
...never gets a chance to use his supernatural powers to cure another black person, only white people. Both characters are examples of a recurring Hollywood fantasy that might be called the Magic Negro--strange black beings who come to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, then use them to solve white folks' mundane problems instead of helping black folks by, say, routing the Ku Klux Klan...
...Ring, is an uneasy kin to Gollum, who shows flashes of the sweet creature he once was. We see, as Frodo does, that Gollum's devious, cringing present could be the hobbit's future. Though the crape of impending war hangs over Towers, it is vivid with mortal melodrama and some potent new characters. Treebeard, an Ent (shepherd of the woods) reluctantly drawn into the conflict, has the stately, smiling gravity of Bernard Shaw. And the digitized Gollum is wonderfully complex. At first a whiny Jar Jar Binks as he might be played by Klaus Kinski, Gollum soon reveals...