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...this page and about nine others. And while there is no common source of all these tragedies, they all exemplify the daily tragedy that has become America. It is a system beyond anyone's control, slowly consuming itself like a cooling star. It will continue, of course--nothing can overwhelm the combined forces of inertia and entrenchment, at least not now--and improvement seems hardly likely...
...Hamilton was given to nervous collapses, irrational eruptions and an anxious preoccupation with personal glory. It seemed somehow right that such a touchy man should die in a duel. Fortunately, Flexner never permits his psychological theories, which seem sound enough if not pursued to preposterous lengths, to overwhelm this rich and very solid biography, ending with Hamilton's 26th year, two decades before his death...
...ballroom scene in Act 1 in which Bothwell (sung by Barry Busse) and his soldiers watch awkwardly as Mary (Ashley Putnam) and her courtiers dance stately pavanes. Infuriated by the perfumed elegance, Bothwell strides forward and belts forth a rough Scottish reel. The roistering tune and sinister tremolo accompaniment overwhelm the lutelike Renaissance melody of the dance-and the musical battle foreshadows real ones to come...
While stopping short of supporting New York loan guarantees, Busbee agreed that "fire and brimstone regionalism" must not be allowed to overwhelm national economic policy. But sectionalist pressures are growing fast. At least six associations of elected officials and regional experts have been created by Northern states during the past 18 months alone. The largest: the Northeast-Midwest coalition of 204 Congressmen, headed by Massachusetts Representative Michael Harrington, which seeks legislation favorable to industrial states. In newspaper ads proclaiming THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN, Michigan has called for a Great Lakes area "common market." Busbee in turn has been telling...
...unborn child, and the enemy of her father but he was also the lover of her mother and the father of Anthony and all this unbeknownst to the children. No wonder the knowledge of it made Mr. Earnshaw ill." When such awkwardnesses of her own creation threaten to overwhelm the story, L'Estrange keeps things moving by simply brazening through. She produces a page-turner rather than art, but she does not drag Wuthering Heights into blithering depths...