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However audiences may judge the event, one thing is certain: the economy of Oberammergau will thrive happily. This year's play, to be performed 95 times through Sept. 30, is expected to attract about 460,000 visitors and generate close to $5 million for the prosperous village. Some things never change...
...years than it does to be a priest," he says. The order itself was the natural choice for a young man who was torn between scholarly interests and an active temperament. Cities, rather than remote monasteries, are Jesuit stamping grounds, and whether as teachers, missionaries or administrators, Jesuits thrive in the secular world...
Peninsula, AALARM and the executive board of the Republican Club have a right to say what they want and as loudly as they want. These groups thrive on publicity, and each new criticism of their actions inevitably brings with it a wave of smug denunciations. They viee each criticism as another proof of their paranoid claim that a hostile, unified left is out to get them...
...educated voters that is essential. They have few democratic roots. "There is no concept of a loyal opposition," notes Smith Hempstone, the U.S. ambassador to Kenya. "Dissent is equated with sedition." Most debilitating, though, is their sheer poverty, which makes it extremely difficult for a pluralist political system to thrive. Says Hempstone: "Africa missed the industrial revolution, which formed the basis of modern democracy in the West...
Thus was born the nickname -- Landslide Lyndon -- that even Johnson relished when he returned to Washington as a Senator. Surely such a tarnished human -- this Shakespearean assemblage of grand ideals, ambitions and flaws -- could not continue to thrive in the open air of democracy? That question must wait until Robert Caro tells what happened next...