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...there is another possibility. Given the thesis that Southerners possess a certain talent for law, for government and politics -you remember the early Virginians-then maybe those talents will now be free to manifest themselves. Perhaps the South owes the country the debt. The North saved the Union the first time. I'm slightly optimistic that the South will save it a second time...
...reminds one how fused by the current of high artificiality the aesthetic and sexual fancies of the time were apt to be. Every Parisian male wanted to possess Cléo de Mérode, Liane de Pougy and their thespian sisters-the "great horizontals." But they were also votive objets de culte, focuses of sexual snobbery. In a like way, the most rarefied work of the art nouveau craftsmen was not accessible to a wide public. As the style spread through the decorative arts-furniture making, inlay, bookbinding, jewelry, glass-too much labor and fine material were devoured...
Fifty years ago, the Republicans could assume that political power came along with their profits and prominence. No more. The supreme irony is that at a time when people of all political persuasions are calling for the managerial skills that the Republicans possess, the Grand Old Party must fight for its life. At least the Republicans can read a balance sheet. Surely those bleak figures were what roused President Ford to such heights in his acceptance speech and sent the Republicans off with new hope on their mission of self-preservation...
Indeed, Mars seems to possess many of the elements essential to life on earth. Most of Mars' visible water appears in the form of atmospheric vapor or ice locked in the planet's two polar caps (the surface pressure on Mars is so low* that liquid water would probably boil away). But liquid water apparently once did flow freely on the Martian surface in earlier days; Viking's orbital pictures show that the planet is crisscrossed by dry "riverbeds" and sinuous valleys, including a deep Grand Canyon-like depression called the Valles Marineris, that were probably carved...
...married and has two children, puts much of the blame for the country's sexual debility on the overrated Italian male. "The Latin lover comes out of this pretty well beaten up," he says. "He is a bluff. In addition to his wife, a husband wants to possess a steady mistress and a few casual lovers too. The male is cursory and pluralistic. He is not interested in the quality so much as the quantity of his relations and, clearly, it is the women who pay for that...