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...twilight of the Roman Empire was characterized by a once-great people overindulging in the excesses of an unproductive, decadent, circus-filled life. That's what America is. Instead of getting on with our lives, we watch O.J. squirm. Instead of producing, we rehash murder scenes for dirty, empty profit...
True classics are, by definition, timeless; we see them again and again because they continue to offer something new. The most rigorous test of artistic achievement ascertains whether a work of art can hold up over time, whether it can still offer meaning to a changing audience. Director Roman Polanski's film "Chinatown" is an interesting case study in the construction of a classic. When "Chinatown" premiered in 1974, the film received outstanding critical praise and ten Oscar nominations. This was enough to make it a success in its time. The question now, twenty years after its premiere, is whether...
...converted to the Roman Catholic Church in my adolescence. But I never had a convert's zeal. I never acquired that instinctive deep structure, that internal universe, that is installed in the cradle Catholic from the start -- the spiritual DNA. Half in the church, half out, a kid who read too much Graham Greene and Thomas Merton, I embraced, it may be, the surface things: the brocaded rituals, the Latin Mass of those days, the rich atmospheres...
...According to Kessler, the transport of these goods to central Asia marked the earliest full-scale use of the Silk Road, the fabled network of trade routes that ultimately stretched to the Mediterranean Sea; on the Silk Road, bolts of Chinese silk were carried all the way to the Roman Empire...
...transformation has been a painful and slow one. As a charismatic priest in the progressive wing of the Roman Catholic Church, Aristide was used to making a strong impression without bearing much responsibility for the political consequences. Fierce and theatrical behind the pulpit, he preached grand ideas of justice and equality, then left his parishioners to decide what to do. Often his sermons brought people out into the streets in a surge of anger, only to be fired upon by the army. With a priest's immunity, he castigated the most powerful sectors of society -- the wealthy elite, the business...