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...last century, the historian Henry Adams used to mortify himself for falling short of the power held by his forebears John and John Quincy Adams. But his meditations upon the destructive potential of modernity and the forces that shaped life in America--a place, he complained, where all become "servant[s] of the powerhouse"--became a 20th century guide for the perplexed. As for his contemporaries in the White House whose station he sometimes envied, such men as Rutherford B. Hayes and Grover Cleveland, most of them look now like the mediocrities Adams knew them...
Blikk: Is this how you met Carlos, your love-servant who is reputed? Did you know he was heaven-sent right off the stick? Or were you dating many other people in your bed at the same time...
There is enough in the new testament to challenge morally each one of us. Servant leadership would not have been advocated by those lusting for power. It is often personally costly to act morally right. Science is no better than the integrity of the scientists; results can be manipulated for money. Favorable results can be emphasized and unfavorable ones omitted. That some scholars are rejecting the Resurrection is nothing new, even if their reasons seem to be. CHARLES LAMB Roscrea, Ireland...
...READ WITH DISMAY YOUR ARTICLE "Caribbean Blizzard" [WORLD, Feb. 26]. Your remarks about "the Bird dynasty" looking the other way as drug traffickers operate in Antigua are unfair. Vere C. Bird has been a faithful servant of the people of Antigua and Barbuda; his two sons Lester and Vere Jr. have undergone the same kinds of political tests all other politicians face in democratic countries. For instance, it was Prime Minister Lester Bird who insisted on the public inquiry into Vere Bird Jr.'s involvement with an illegal transshipment of guns, placing his loyalty to the country above that owed...
John Atkins, in his role as Elviro, Arsamene's servant, provides comic relief in a subtle, yet outwardly funny manner. In one scene, Atkins appears disguised as a flower-girl, wearing a large, tire-shaped plant holder around his waist and singing about the many varieties of flowers he sells. And near the opera's end, when after the three-and-one-half hour performance audience members have begun to fidget in their seats, Elviro proclaims, "I am really exhausted...