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...front of the stage and telling them how deceptive he is. "As anyone can see, I'm not bashful," he said. "I enjoy singing and acting. This opera is close to drama. The recitatives have been cut and dialogue substituted so that we don't have to sing on sixteenth-notes. Doing the opera in English was an excellent idea, although in this place it's difficult to hear English even with your best diction...
...fifth century B.C. (B) The fourteenth century A.D. (C) The sixteenth century A.D. (D) The eighteenth century A.D. (E) The twentieth century...
...obnoxious Congressmen can still be played with equal-population rules. New York's districts vary no more than eighteen per cent from the average, but they were obviously drawn with considerable care. New York City's nineteen districts have a seemingly irrational assortment of twisted and contorted shapes. The Sixteenth District even joins Staten Island to a section of eastern Brooklyn...
...sixteenth-century English writer once said: "Everyone talks of freedom, but there are but few that act for freedom, and the actors for freedom are oppressed by the talkers and verbal professors of freedom." (Gerrard Winstanley...
...provides an interesting example of racist legal gymnastics. Whites in that state can marry neither Negroes nor American Indians. In Virginia, a Negro is a person who has any Negro ancestor, and an American Indian is a person who had at least one Indian grandparent. If someone has one-sixteenth or less "Indian blood" then he is a white. But Virginia still hasn't decided what you are if you have one-eighth Indian heritage, i.e. one of your great-grandparents was an Indian. Furthermore, if a man is an inhabitant of an Indian tribal reservation and has at least...