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...Revolution, sharp by the daily duel of French intellects." The historians dis play such artistry too sparingly. Still, these most popular popularists are incapable of writing a dull book or a trivial one. The Age of Napoleon is not their best book, but it is their last. Readers can mourn that statement - and celebrate the fact that the Durants have contributed so much to the American under standing of that most foreign country, the past...
...society could expedite its justice system to balance its award of instant notoriety with instant punishment to fit the crime, say within 30 days, there would be fewer victims to mourn...
...wrote a long rambling feminist manifesto and sent it to Ms. magazine along with a set of her fingerprints to prove its authenticity. It included gratuitous details about the sexual problems of Melville and Rudd and said of the Attica dead, including her former lover: "I will mourn the loss of 42 male supremacists no longer." The article evoked the heaviest reader response in the magazine's history...
Nearly all 560 subjects of the medieval fiefdom of Sark gathered last week around a gnarled oak tree in their parish churchyard to mourn Dame Sibyl Mary Collings Beaumont Hathaway, 21st Seigneur of Sark. She had died suddenly of a heart attack in her palatial home on Sark at the age of 90. During almost five decades of rule over the minuscule (4½ sq. mi.) Channel island, Dame Sibyl had labored to keep the 20th century at bay in what she pridefully called "the last bastion of feudalism in the modern world...
...defines patriotism. If it means "my country right or wrong" and blind approval of war and Watergate, I applaud its downfall. If, however, it means commitment to democratic participation and free expression of ideas without enemies lists, buggings and suitcases full of political payoffs, I then mourn its passing...