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...Tempest is about emancipation: Prospero escapes his exile, Ariel emerges from servitude, Miranda enters the realm of adult passion. Yet this production fails to free its audience. When the storm clears, our feelings--like many a storm-tossed thing--are hopelessly knotted...
...Accords in 1979 visibly shocked the Arab peoples who still desperately wanted to believe in Nasserist slogans calling for Pan-Arabian and the destruction of the Jewish state. Admittedly, Sadat's peace initiative had tremendous historical as well as symbolic value, but it was never intended to transcend the realm of symbolism. Sadat was celebrated as a hero in the West but remained largely unpopular at home and was labeled a traitor all over the Arab world. The years of "cold peace" following his death signaled Egypt's reluctance to translate the symbolic peace into "real" peace that could benefit...
...achievements were effortless. Where he could have made his self-realized mark, where he could have impressed his father, was in quite a different realm. Mantle's wasted potential pained him more than his remarkable accomplishments impressed...
Atwood offers the reader little real solace through these confrontations with death. She retreats instead to the realm of imagination. The speaker in "Morning in the Burned House," the final poem in the collection, revels in the bizarre, hallucinatory state between life and death, imagined as a peaceful yet disquieting domestic scene...
...must take the strict standards we employ in the academic sphere and bring into the realm of physical conditioning. Wasn't it Locke, who in providing instruction to educators, recognized that one is only properly and thoroughly educated 'when taught to value both "a sound mind and a sound body...