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...other candidates seem to stick their finger out into the polling wind, desperately seeking which way the voters blow. Dole collects endorsements from the establishment like trading cards as if that will be enough to win. Ordinary people are not looking for a political servant. They are looking for someone to articulate a message which they can support...
...Albans (where Al Gore studied later on) or to Georgetown Prep, the Jesuits' country-club campus, out in Bethesda. Although Pat's father was a prospering accountant, many Gonzaga boys harbored a shame of the excluded, and a concomitant anger, as if we came from the immigrant servant class (as indeed many Catholics did) and were being educated, however brilliantly, belowstairs. The Jesuits' accomplishment was to redirect our aggressions into intellectual contact sports--debating, oratory...
...America, where the institution of having servants has never been as common as in France, the social criticism which drives the play has much less force. In the production that closed last weekend at the Adams Pool Theater, produced by Extension School drama students Les Welter and Barbara Matteau, the sisters' madness seemed disturbing, but the audience's immediate connection to it--the sense that this violence could exist inside one's own home, beneath the surface of bourgeois contentment--was lacking; people who have never had a servant can't really shudder when a maid cries...
...This is not the end of history," Christopher theorized, "but history in fast-forward." Though he dismissed Fukuyama, the Secretary actually embraced the notion that industrial capitalism and its servant, representative democracy, will dominate the global marketplace unchallenged. America's interests he unfortunately believes, lie in the glitch-free maintenance of the present order...
Oliver Parker's Othello is the more standard of the two, a solid reading that pulls out the stops on an easily played organ. This is, after all, a soap opera of the had-I-but-known variety. All the Moor has to do is ask his wife's servant, "Pray, did thee swipe fair Desdemona's hankie?" and the misunderstanding is resolved as smoothly as any episode of Home Improvement. But then there would be little allurement in the role for some of this century's most dominant actors...