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...speech at the Cambridge Forum, Fairbank proposed a three-part solution: (1) the recognition and acceptance of a Chinese realm including Chinese government over Taiwan; (2) the acceptance of a semi-autonomous Taiwan within a sovereign China; and (3) an agreement by Taiwan to give up claims to the mainland...
...helped to topple the Vendome column during the Paris Commune of 1871. Modern democracy has flattened the myth of the hero, and there are still no good monuments to Churchill or Roosevelt; to imagine an equestrian bronze of Nixon or Pompidou on some future Capitol is to enter the realm of farce...
...early detective stereotype, without the Jack Webb variant ("it's a dull, tough job but I wouldn't have it any other way, and only the facts please, Ma'am,") and without the exploitation-potential of a hero-villain with an especially pathological personality. Working in the realm of the possible (if not quite the typical) Friedkin has disciplined his actors to imitate real policemen and other essentially dull but real people--rather than having them assume the imagined mannerisms of a scriptwriter's brain-child. In American film it's a new style of acting, demanding the selflessness...
...like the outside world has seven major bodies of water), all psychological states can be experienced in the space of a day, but a day is not a day in Disneyland, since time stops. And Disneyland also gives expression to Mircea Eliade's concept of illo tempore, a timeless realm in which the primary acts of reality are acted out continuously. And finally, the five dollar ticket entitles the decent citizen to enter the realms of American Jungian archetypes--the Mark Twain, Mainstreet USA, Tomorrowland, Pluto, Goofy, Abraham Lincoln--all implanted in the unconscious of all the wonderful public willing...
Archibald Cox, Williston Professor of Law, said in a letter to the committee, that the SDS posters and leaflets which have been circulated were within the realm of free speech but carried "ominous undertones...