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...Marquis" examines the work of the Marquis de Sade, the French nobleman with a legendary penchant for bizarre sexual escapades. Sade's writings detail every form of sexual perversion and violent fixation conceivable. Few besides the surrealists and the existentialists credit him with any great contribution to literature, but "Marquis" derives both political and psychological insights from his legacy...
...mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya and razed it. Never mind that the Supreme Court of India, eager to preserve the nation as a secular state in which all religions are respected, had ordered that the mosque be left alone. The existence of the mosque, built by a nobleman of a Mughal Emperor in 1528 on the spot where the Hindu god Rama is said to have been born thousands of years earlier, was deemed an insult by many Hindus, egged on by politicians eager to convert fervent faith into political power...
...pirates return to "take" the girls as wives--a euphemism for raping them--but agree to let them go when the Major General appeals to their sympathy as fellow orphans--the pirates' well-known weak spot. Torbay, decked in britches, cape and sideburns, is the quintessential G&S nobleman, lovable and powerless. His skillful voice and comic ability shine in a song describing the Major General's impractical knowledge recounted in rhyme...
...inexplicable. To understand is to forgive. Evil sometimes means the thing we cannot understand, and cannot forgive. The Steinberg case in New York City, in which a lawyer battered his six-year-old foster daughter Lisa to death, is an example. Ivan Karamazov speaks of a Russian nobleman who had his hounds tear an eight-year-old boy to pieces in front of the boy's mother because he threw a stone at one of the dogs. Karamazov asks the bitter question that is at the heart of the mystery of evil, "What have children to do with it, tell...