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...best Carmen ever seen." Last week it was apparent from the SRO signs outside the house that Director Ducreux had a hit on his hands. As for the riot, noted Ducreux tolerantly, "It was a cabal against me, a vegetable rich cabal. The hecklers were only looking for a raison d'être. They have-modified Descartes' statement to make it "I boo, therefore I exist...
...strangers, or myself. These pro are a constant presence. They fill the air, either as a torment, an annoyance, or high praise, depending on the season and one's mood. Now, on the eve of my leaving, the question arises: what is it all about? What specifically is the raison d'etre of the advocate? Do its premises differ from those of this letter? What are the premises of this letter? I think this letter deserves a closer look. It takes a lot for granted...
Hoffmann would probably deny that the New Leader piece really constitutes a re-evaluation, since his point is that "unsettledness" is all the normalcy the UN can expect; "the world for which the Charter was written never came into being." The Cold War "world" changes the UN's raison d'etre to the necessity of avoiding nuclear war, and paradoxically, of providing one arena from which the Cold War is at least nominally barred...
Like the human appendix, the vestigial Blue Laws, often painful in their enforcement, ought to be removed. In an earlier time, the approval of a majority of the populace may have provided these statutes with a just raison d'etre. Now, the lack of consent among that same majority has transformed them into nothing but a source of irritation and laughter. Only two groups remain to defend what have become really illegitimate impositions on the rest of the state. The first, the minority which believes militantly in the faiths which formerly predominated in Massachusetts society, still refuses to recognize that...
...both for and against his mystical idea of "talent," and for and against his image of hard work. He is opposed to the Institution and he knows the rebel is a phony. The playwright takes no stand, he takes every stand; and his saving grace is that the raison d'etre of a bull-session is argument rather than conclusion...