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...about the age of seven, they were sent to other homes to serve as apprentices and often as servants. Thus they grew up in huge households, with no dependence on their parents. In contrast, the child of today, as the center of the tiny nuclear family, has become its raison d'être and is therefore kept psychologically, financially and emotionally bound...
Ostensibly Dumas is out to prove, particularly through the doomed Athos, that we must love with more head and less heart, but the melo-romantic-dramatic plot will have none of it. And while much of the musketeers' raison d' etre pretends to be the protection of female honor, the play actually shunts its women aside in favor of its male camaraderie. In fact, much of the second half of The Three Musketeers directs its anger not at the scheming Richelieu or the irresponsible Louis or the decaying monarchy that protects the two, but at Richelieu's agent Milady...
...performing the same kind of function that witnesses say Charles Manson had in mind when he allegedly hoped that blacks would be held responsible for the Sharon Tate murders, thereby kindling a race war. Vietnam is never directly mentioned in Joe, and plain old murder is the screenplay's raison d'etre as well as its resolution. Plain old murder not to be confused with revolution, repression or even the hard-hat-inflicted violence at a political rally on Wall Street last spring...
...performing the same kind of function that witnesses say Charles Manson had in mind when he allegedly hoped that blacks would be held responsible for the Sharon Tate murders, thereby kindling a race war. Vietnam is never directly mentioned in Joe, and plain old murder is the screenplay's raison d'etre as well as its resolution. Plain old murder-not to be confused with revolution, repression or even the hard-hat-inflicted violence at a political rally on Wall Street last spring...
...basic concerns is with what it considers a "highly agnostic" trend: the diminution of belief in the traditional Christian doctrine of life after death. Not only does such skepticism deny comfort to the kin of the dead, says the fellowship, but it raises profound questions about "what the raison d'etre of the church can really...