Fixing the Nation's Problem: When a Sweet Bird of Youth Crosses the Line
1999; University of Minnesota Press; Issue: 43 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1354487
ISSN1460-2458
Autores Tópico(s)Law, Rights, and Freedoms
ResumoThere is hardly a novel, play, opera, or movie that has not been invoked over the past year as the perfect analogy to the scandal surrounding the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton. Those in search of eternal human truth turn to canonical texts, like GOP lawyer Thomas Schippers when he remarked that it takes on all the aspects of a Greek tragedy. If Clinton wasn't just another Oedipus, then he was playing a Shakespearean Richard II to Ken Starr's lago (according to Harold Bloom in the London Independent, 28 February 1999, 18-23).1 While those into sin or sleaze summoned the Ten Commandments or Melrose Place,2 folks in quest of societal parallels invoked Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter (moral hypocrisy), Orwell, Kafka, or Arthur Miller's The Crucible (totalitarian tendencies), or the absurd theater of Samuel Beckett.3 Everything offers an analogy to somebody, and the text you choose tells something about you-as does the text you produce, and what has impeachment been but an endless production of texts? Besides the barrage of media stories, the Starr Report, and Monica's Story, witness after-the-fact ruminations such as those in this volume, and-everything's got a silver lining-humor
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