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...past decade, tougher laws against drunken drivers have dragged tens of thousands of offenders through protracted court battles and ultimately to jail. Now the police possess a faster and more effective method of keeping drinkers off the roads. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have passed administrative-license-revocati on laws that give police the right to seize the licenses of drivers who fail or refuse sobriety tests...
Lurking behind Sale's argument and that of many other vociferous critics is a prelapsarian myth: the world was once perfect and now it isn't, so someone or something must have ruined it. Many cultures possess a form of this myth; it is particularly strong in Western thought because of the Adam and Eve story in the Old Testament. In the 18th century, Jean Jacques Rousseau popularized a secular version of that Eden story with his writings about the Noble Savage. And part of his inspiration for this concept came from his knowledge of the New World. Even Sale...
Seurat was a brilliant and highly self-conscious metteur en scene. His landscapes often possess the sense of anticipation one associates with an empty stage. (Hence they were a powerful influence on De Chirico, and on Surrealism generally.) Nowhere is this more piercing than in the large study for the landscape of La Grande Jatte, without its 50 or so people, its monkey and two dogs. The curtain has risen on this green paradise, and the cast will filter on, one at a time, throughout the subsequent studies -- the St.-Cyr cadet, the lady with the monkey but without...
These nomads, however, possess an abiding belief that their way of life is precious. During the past few years, they have mounted a stirring, nonviolent campaign to defend the forests, which are their libraries, shops and larders. "We cannot be separated from the land where our ancestors have lived," says Asik Nyelik, the headman of Sungai Ubong who has twice been arrested for joining barricades to halt the loggers. Though the lure of modern living has reduced the nomadic Penans from 13,000 two decades ago to perhaps 500 today, those who remain see few advantages in choosing the "barren...
...creation of a strong civic culture, for there to have been some type of civic protest or movement that in the worst days of dictatorship bore witness to more humane values. I do not know of any society that will survive as a democracy that does not possess in some fashion or other that sort of civic culture...