Abe: Imperial son of Nicholas the Great,see also Tsar Alexander II of Russia pledges support for the Union
We air in the same fix I calculate,
You with your Poles, with Southern rebels I,
Who spurn my rule and my revenge defy.
Alex: Vengeance is mine, old man; see where it falls,
Behold your hearths laid waste, and ruined walls,
Your gibbets, where the struggling patriot hangs,
Whilst my brave myrmidons enjoy his pangs.
И он опять отказался с клятвою: не знаю я Этого Человека!стандартные формулировки NYT: eugenics, the discredited field of improving the human race through controlled breeding
«Третья Мещанская»: немое кино про любовь втроем во времена НЭПа
Our contribution is twofold. First, we show that a desire to persuade others generates overconfidence. ... Our second contribution is to provide rigorous causal evidence that privately held confidence about one’s own performance leads to social success through both verbal and non-verbal channels.
- Deception and self-deception
упоминается среди его книг “This Misterie of Fucking”: A Sex Manual from 1680In an incident that is difficult to interpret as anything but rape, Pepys recounts entering the home of a ship’s carpenter—a man very much under his control, since Pepys was a naval official—and noting that, after a struggle, “finally I had my will of her.” His only recorded regret is “a mighty pain” in his finger, which he injured during the apparent assault.
The victim, identified only as Mrs. Bagwell, had been instructed to offer herself to Pepys by her husband, who thought it would help his advancement. “The story,” notes Tomalin, “is a shameful one of a woman used by two bullies: her husband, hoping for promotion, and Pepys, who was to arrange it. Pepys did not present it in quite those terms, but it is clearly how it was.”
- Honest to a Fault
Marjorie Garber of Harvard draws the parallel between the Lewinsky affair and the Megillah. “The play casts itself,” writes Garber: Bill Clinton plays King Ahasuerus, while “Hillary is Vashti, the headstrong proto-feminist queen . . . and Monica, needless to say, is Esther, the beautiful Jewess.” - The Problem with Purim
Cohen writes: "we cannot ignore the fact that it is Esther who asks the king for an additional day on which the Jews can kill their enemies."формулировочки... не зря он там пишет
Yoram Hazony argues in his book The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther, Esther’s request for an extra 24 hours of Jewish self-defense in the capital of Susa was good strategy.
...setting the stage for a massive score-settling in which those who planned to murder the Jews are instead the ones who are killed in a preemptive war of self-defense.
— Привет, у нас вакансия, стартап, приходи
— Расскажи о проекте, что делаете, зачем, на какие деньги?
— Вы нам не подходите, извините
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The emphasis throughout is on the fact that the history of cultural practices cannot be sundered from the history of efforts to reconstruct and understand (or, alternatively, to suppress the memory of) those practices.local copy
- The Rite to Be Reckless: On the Perpetration and Interpretation of Purim Violence by Elliott Horowitz
see also Toledot Yeshu & Paul de Lagarde, alsoThe tendency to delegitimize forms of festivity that had previously been acceptable may be seen, for example, among the leaders of the Portuguese-Jewish community of Amsterdam, who decided, two weeks before Purim of 1640, to prohibit hammering in the synagogue during the reading of the Megilla, a custom they considered more appropriate to barbarians than to civilized individuals. The prohibition seems to have had no more than a limited effect, however, for three decades later it was deemed necessary not only to repeat it, but to increase the fine twentyfold (Kaplan 1986: 181).7! As Shakespeare understood: “The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree” (The Merchant of Venice I, 2).
