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...since it demands no love, it can evoke no loyalty." Self-government, he added, is "a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers, or to love our kind." He wrote a beloved cousin from prison, "I die the death I sought, and may God forgive the mistakes and receive the intent." So, indeed, should history...
...ruled that evidence abandoned by a suspect is no longer constitutionally protected. This logical legal distinction has resulted in literally hundreds of police every year reporting in court that defendants dropped incriminating evidence-usually narcotics -thereby justifying arrest. There are local variations. Los Angeles recently had a rash of "smell" testimony after one police officer successfully justified a search by saying that he had smelled marijuana on the defendant. In New York, judging by some recent testimony, ghetto residents often leave their apartment doors open with bags of heroin "in plain view." This allows policemen who just happen...
Anyone who has seen The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of The Crowd--the "other" Anthony Newley musical--will quickly recognize Newley's rather facile method of symbolism, and the familiar, characteristic nature of his melodies. Like Cocky, the central character of Greasepaint, Littlechap represents the little-guy/clown figure, valiantly struggling against innumerable forces and the temptations of the world. Because this world is often overpowering, he is occasionally forced to stop it, in order to escape temporarily any nightmare or turmoil he brings down on himself. We initially see him attempting--and failing--to entertain an imagined...
...smell of herbal essence permanently fills the air and only fades away as you move in one direction towards the chlorine-sharp air of the pool, or toward the burning air of the drying room...
...extendes beyond the territory we allot to it. A bombing of a munitions factory in an American city or a murder on Brattle street are considered abnormal. The privileged male, the educated male should be able to oppress subtly--to financially benefit from cheap labor without ever having to smell the sweat, to be certain that the women are under control and safely at home without ever having to say a word about it. Only it is not part of the plan that the women of one's own neighborhood are killed. That is dominance going beyond its boundaries...