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Abandoned by Jenny and the other lumberjacks, Jimmy is tried and sentenced to death for his inability to pay. Again, throughout the trial sequence, Jimmy appears as a victim of the system, possessing an innocence that his wanton actions do not betray. His distinguishing feature is a yearning for total anarchic freedom, a desire that is stymied by the government of Mahagonny. After his execution the city falls apart; its citizens' total freedom has intensified their ideological differences, and the center cannot hold...
...reverse defection, Hussein Kamel and his brother piled their families and flotsam pieces of luggage into a convoy of Mercedes and drove to the Jordan-Iraq border. There they were received by Saddam's sons Qusay and Uday, a wanton killer who is Hussein Kamel's sworn enemy. When word of the return reached the West, Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a woman who rarely finds herself at a loss for words, said simply, "I have given up trying to understand the Iraqi elite...
...Union was designed by McKim, Mead & White, a renowned turn-of-the-century architecture firm whose works include the Harvard Club in New York City and the Boston Public Library. The planned destruction of the hall recalls the wanton destruction of the firm's greatest work, Pennsylvania Station in New York City in 1964. This monument fell victim to the disastrous urban "renewal" programs of the '50's and the '60's. The loss of Pennsylvania Station is now universally regretted. Yet the administration of our great university seems bent on committing a similar travesty...
Alhough the artistic merit of some of the films far outshines the grime on screen, such justification wears thin for others. In the face of the fifteenth wanton murder or fourth example of very, very free love, we just might think the filmmaker has lost his way in making his statement...
Even though radical groups have long had the power to kill more people than they actually did, the fact that they held back somewhat suggests they imposed certain restraints on themselves. Most such groups viewed themselves as political activists rather than wanton killers. They had to appeal to potential supporters of their program and were wary of producing a backlash of revulsion by using the most repellent methods. The cold war and the rules of state-sponsored terrorism curtailed their freedom of action. Governments knew more or less who was sponsoring whom, and the threat of retaliation was always present...