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...been telling us over the past four decades, Jefferson was a deeply flawed human being. Not only was he sometimes deceitful and duplicitous, but he was also a racist slaveholder who never freed most of his slaves. Certainly, however, we should be able to admit these flaws in this timebound 18th century figure without denigrating the democratic ideals he set forth...
...Constitution itself. Many scholars today argue quite convincingly that the Founding Fathers designed the Constitution with two principal purposes in mind: to keep the political process open and accessible--and to safeguard eternal American values, like free speech. Not surprisingly, the one amendment that sought to enshrine a more timebound value into the Constitution--the 18th Amendment, which established prohibition--was resoundingly repealed 14 years after its 1919 ratification...
Lamentations. Even his childhood memories as the son of a Rumanian couple living in France are rendered as scattered images rather than timebound incidents. Chronology, he implies, is untrustworthy; it has a way of running out. There is comfort in his childhood impressions, but they are inadequate protection against the despair that swamps him now at 55. His uneasiness spills forth in tuneless lamentations...
...intravenously. To solve some of the same problems, Psychologist Donald Michael said that withdrawn personalities like schizophrenics or hermits might make fine spacemen, provided that they had the motivation to do their jobs. Eskimos or Buddhist monks might be good, too, because they come from "more sedentary, less timebound cultures than...
Throughout the poems, in constant undertone and, more often than not, by indirection, Eliot writes of the timebound society he lives...
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