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...literary character Franklin invented was a triumph of imagination. Silence Dogood was a slightly prudish widow from a rural area, created by a spunky unmarried Boston 16-year-old who had never spent a night outside of the city. He imbued Mrs. Dogood with that spirited aversion to tyranny that he would help to make part of the American character. "I am," she wrote, "a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country; and the least appearance of an encroachment on those invaluable privileges...
Franklin used Mrs. Dogood to attack the theocratic rule of the Puritan establishment and the link between church and state that was then the very foundation of Massachusetts government. At one point she asks, "Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane?" Unsurprisingly, she concludes the former is worse, and singles out the Governor, a minister who had become a politician, as an example. "The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able...
...desire of a woman in her mid-30s to be fascinating to stupid teens-- "I want to play Xbox on your floor," she sings. Longtime fans will get the humor even though they may resent being cast aside like last year's game console. Teens, meanwhile, will wonder how Mrs. Robinson got into their bedroom. The Matrix songs on Liz Phair sound like sugar-coated contemporary pop, but they feel all wrong. Pop is equal parts attitude and sound; when the attitude is neediness, the sound is of people running away...
...desire of a woman in her mid-30s to be fascinating to stupid teens - "I want to play Xbox on your floor," she sings. Longtime fans will get the humor even though they may resent being cast aside like last year's game console. Teens will wonder how Mrs. Robinson got into their bedroom. The Matrix songs on Liz Phair sound like sugarcoated contemporary pop, but they feel all wrong. Pop is equal parts attitude and sound; when the attitude is neediness, the sound is of people running away. "I don't expect my album to be everything to everybody...
...trouble; the Iran-contra scandal blew up on his watch, and he tangled with the First Lady, who helped speed his ouster after a year. He retaliated with a memoir, For the Record, that disclosed Nancy's reliance on an astrologer for advice, which she gave her beloved "Ronnie." Mrs. Reagan later responded with her own book, in which she labeled Regan "explosive" and sniffed that he "often acted as if he were the President...