Word: containmentâ
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...incur every emotion from elation to terror. It is a little like the vision of the Hudson River school of painting ?the brooding serenity of turquoise skies, patriarchal clouds and trees, very still, doll-like people (white and red), infinite promise, potential self-deception and, above all, perfect containment???the individual and the land, man and God locked in a snakeless Eden. James Fenimore Cooper wrote a novel, Satanstoe, about such a place, an ideal America in which everyone ruled his own vast estate, his own civilization. Whether or not Reagan sees Rancho del Cielo or Pacific Palisades...