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Jefferson has undergone even wider swings in the historical standings, perhaps the greatest for any President. He had savage critics while he was in office; "Mad Tom" was one of their epithets for him. (Washington was called "a tyrant" and Lincoln "a baboon." Lyndon Johnson, touchingly, took comfort in those contemporary misjudgments.) The conservative Northeast historians of the 19th century held essentially to the Hamiltonian belief in a strong central government and saw Jefferson as the exponent of weak government and of an excessive trust in the people. Jefferson did not fare much better with progressives, who loved the people...
...shape of a new agenda is not entirely clear, though its vision must be of government as servant, not tyrant. The old programs have finally proved unpalatable to many, a fact that should not be too much mourned, for many things change in 50 years, and even ten. But clearly the answers cannot be the managerial preservation of the status quo offered by Jimmy Carter and John Anderson in the past and Walter Mondale in the future. A new direction for liberalism is on the minds of many--Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) started advocating a low-cal progressivism...
People in the United States often look quizzically at her involvement in the Indian political scene and ask, "How can a democratic people accept and revere such a tyrant?" They see transgressions of civil liberties during the "emergency" she called in 1975 as violations that could find no forgiveness in the United States. Her autocratic control of the military, foreign and economic development would seem intolerable. These notions of democracy are inherently Western, however; the real impact they have in India exists only through the long-standing influence of the West on India's ascendent classes. But these classes have...
...excusing inhumanity is at all times and in all places hypocritical. But to recognize our own inhumanity is not unpatriotic; instead it is a sensible first step towards improving our conduct and preventing a repetition of the Iranian debacle. For a generation Iranians lived in fear, oppressed by a tyrant placed in power by our Central Intelligence Agency and maintained by our largesse. It is not hard to understand why Iranians hate the United States. It is not hard to understand why they lined the streets of Tehran to shout "Death to America" as the hostages left...
Given the peculiarity of portraying neurotic tools, the three lead actors deliver uniformly fine performances. As Jean, the social-climbing, "wandering intellectual", Roger-Pierre--a paunchy, fifty-ish Charlie Chaplin, sans mustache--is the perfect ambitious bureaucrat: a tyrant with his wife, children, and mistress but a wimpy, play-by-the-rules kiss-ass in the office. Nicole Garcia's Janine represents that curious person you know well but who is either brilliant and wily or a complete and utter moron--and you can't decide which it is. Gerard Depardieu, oddly enough, looks more like Cro-Magnon...