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...Evangelists for school choice don't want the public school system to get better; they want it to get worse, as a prelude to getting out of it and into private schools. To them the push for prayer is like asking the band of the Titanic to strike up Nearer, My God, to Thee...
Both sides wielded colorful signs, jostling each other to crowd nearer the TV cameras...
...drew nearer, few workers were certain of the exact date, but they could detect the quickening pace. Bernard Taylor, 84, was superintendent of a Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas, making PT-17 flight trainers. One day in November 1941, Taylor noted a harried congregation of high military brass outside his plant. Then he was called in by his boss, who declared, "You're in the glider business...
...serve only to entangle him more tightly. In film noir, the spider at the center of such a web is usually a woman, and in this case she is Suzanne (Lara Flynn Boyle), Michael's intended victim. After he spares her, she expresses her gratitude by luring him still nearer to destruction. Film noir also typically calls for a dash of psychopathy, and in Red Rock West that is provided by Dennis Hopper, who plays the professional killer and causes lightning flashes of madness to streak across the screen. Red Rock West has the customary film noir hint of civic...
...French writer named Denis de Rougemont attended a Nazi rally in Nuremburg and recorded a stunning experience. The long-awaited arrival of Adolf Hitler threw the crowd into a frenzy. Screams of delight mounted to a ferver pitch as the man drew nearer, until the surging mass of the people gave way to utter hysteria. Rougemont felt something uncontrollable stir within him--the thrill of mass hysteria--and so powerful was the feeling that he almost succumbed. But something withing him rebelled. Ionesco relates Rougemont's story with curiosity in his notes from November 1960; "just then...