Saturday, January 25, 2020
KENNAN SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME PINNACLE OF ESCAPISM
Saturday, May 11, 2019
THE OPERA BOUFFE POLITICAL SYSTEM
Sunday, September 4, 2011
KENNAN REFERENCES RE FLEDERMAUS AND COVENT GARDEN PRODUCTION
"If we could afford to preserve an opera-bouffe political system, in which everything was taken in the spirit of Strauss' 'Fledermaus,' I should be the last person to oppose anything which could add so materially to the humor of it as our type of amateurism in government.......But if death, torture and misery are not laughing matters, then neither is political life in these times; for death, torture and misery have become the penalties of political failure."
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