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...soul with anguish rend...
Matthew (7:6) must have had Mr. Kennedy in mind when he wrote: "Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend...
Hussein, like his people, is a figure caught between two worlds, and inside himself plays out many of the conflicts which rend the Middle East. He is the scion of one of Islam's proudest families, the 41st generation representative of the Hashemite clan in direct descent from the Prophet Mohammed. He is also the Westernized product of a British schooling, who likes nothing better than to tinker over a souped-up Cadillac at the Amman auto club, pilot his personal jet across the desert skies, or dance the Arabian nights out to Latin American jazz rhythms...
...play. Yet its neglect is scarcely warranted, for there is much that is special, fascinating, even fine about it, and much in its mood for a modern audience to respond to. With bitter and debunking cynicism, Shakespeare slashed in Troilus at the great fabric of the Trojan War, to rend its romance and heroism to tatters, to reduce its Homeric clang to verbosity and decadence...
...first wish is that we should reform at the earliest moment our political and social habits as well as certain institutions, that we should silence fatal passions and hatreds-those hatreds which I have sometimes had to suffer in the silence imposed by my high position, those hatreds which rend the country at the very hour when we should all be joining hands to achieve our recovery and to show our friends as well as our adversaries in the world a united strength and a resolute soul . . . After her great tragedies, the nation must in effect find herself again...