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...sake of health. Other Utopians were equally antiseptic. In The City of the Sun, by the 17th century writer Tommaso Campanella, no woman was permitted to have sexual intercourse until she was 19; a man had to wait until he was 21-or longer, if he happened to be pale-complexioned. Those stalwarts who managed to abstain until they were 27 were to be paid homage at a public gathering, where hymns were sung in their honor. In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the voyager Christian can reach the Celestial City-which 17th century artists sometimes...
...physical problems pale alongside the political ones, which have been festering since Panama's anti-American riots of 1964. While footing an estimated $2.9 billion construction bill, the U.S. will have to meet Panama's demands for a bigger say in operating the new waterway-and a bigger share of the revenues...
...genius is not catching. In the way that one speaks of situation comedies, Tourneur's play is a situation tragedy, with its repetitive horrors and villainies lurching unpredictably into farce. Its demonic hero, Vendice (Kenneth Haigh), is bent on revenge without a hindering trace of Hamlet's "pale cast of thought" or the Dane's meditative scruples. Vendice comes onstage fondling the skull of his poisoned mistress. He plays pander in the court of the duke who killed her. Assembling the skeleton of his beloved (he calls her "the bony lady"), Vendice gowns and perfumes her, rouges...
Even that does not solve the inflation problem. A solution requires still an extra degree of unemployment and economic slack?enough to make the most skilled workers fear loss of their jobs if they demand higher wages and to make employers pale at the thought of the markets they will lose if they raise prices. In the U.S. the degree of economic slack required is proving considerably larger than anyone had expected. Prices continue to rise even though almost a fourth of the nation's factory capacity is idle...
...most of all it is the result of our crumbling illusions about our world, of our realization of the forces of politics and power structures that not only controlled the world but even permeated our sequestered university communities. Placed beside these new ideas, even Rubber Soul began to pale in significance. The concept of the Sub-Culture became increasingly a political concept. (The Sub-Culture itself may never have really existed.) By the time the Let It Be album was released, it was not an event of very great importance to anyone except those who would make money...