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...gold mystique has never tak en hold in the U.S. For one thing, there was precious little of it around in the nation's early days: almost 90% of the known world gold supply of 80,000 tons has been produced in only the last century. Even in the pre-Revolutionary period, when most of the major countries were still relying on metal currency, the colonists were widely circulating paper money of one kind or another to meet the needs of their growing commerce...
...throne by murdering the czar's only heir, the boy Dimitri. Filled with remorse, fear and delusion, Boris dies a crazed death as a people's revolution, led by a false Dimitri, prepares to overthrow him. Powerfully scored, Boris has no peers in Russia and precious few in all of opera. Yet for close to a century, Mussorgsky's masterpiece has had a formidable and often cruel rival: of all things, his own work, as later revised by his fellow Russian, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Metropolitan Opera has been staging Boris regularly for more than a half...
...about "industrial accidents" and "industrial hygiene." But to Scott when a worker is put out of commission for life with a compensation which won't feed a family, it's no "accident," but the consistent policy of institutions that see men and women as machines, and profits as too precious to trade, even when it's not the workers' happiness but their survival that's on the market. Sociological constructs of "alienation" and "job stimulation" mean little next to blatant threats of injury, sickness and death. Scott's book is less about "industrial hygiene" than it is about industrial murder...
Unlike political families, we usually have small salaries, seldom own our homes and maintain a minimum of health benefits. But the great comfort we enjoy is the precious "retirement plan" from our "Employer," with its eternal wages. That is something politics can never offer...
Over the three-mile course which begins at the B.U. Bridge, a bad stroke or a wayward twitch of the rudder can mean the loss of a few precious seconds or even the boat itself. More than one impressive pursuing crew has bullied its immediate leader to destruction upon the Charles' banks...