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What the play captures so well is the way in which a parent's frustrations and projected ambitions can poison a child's life.
Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.
Macedonia became just another Roman province (in 146 b.c.) and Athens not much more than a showplace museum city, though its philosophy schools and orators kept attracting Romans with political ambitions.
Therapeutic laws become props for rhetoric that might be called demagoguery, except that it disgraces the memories of Joe McCarthy and Huey Long and the ambitions of Pat Buchanan to call Clinton a demagogue.
A new conception of government might yet emerge to realize the ambitions of Gettysburg, to ensure equality of all those “created equal” as it simultaneously promotes a “new birth of freedom.”