“What goes around comes around” may be the lyrical tome sweeping&resounding through
out the minor planet all we humans
inhabit.
II
The common thread for its
needling mode is the Lincoln Douglas debates of hundred and fifty years ago,
the 16trh President taking it to the contender. A light touch and a scorching
tongue were the faces of etching character that elevated his debating to the
oval office and the ensuing Gettysburg address during the Civil War.
III
The forum for setting the
relative tongue lashing may well be in the eyes of the beholder, depending on
how the audience sees and hears the clashing arguments.
Clarence Darrow of Chicago’s
Leopold Loeb notoriety, took his Spencer Tracy cosmic consciousness to a
Tennessee classroom, the teacher Stokes, being maligned for espousing evolution
in laying the foundation for the Darwin’s raison de etre in the breeding of a
higher intelligence, beyond natural
selection in the photosynthesis of vegetation on the Galapagos Islands.
William Jennings Bryan nee
Frederic March (“Inherit the Wind”) in advocating the Holy Bible and its Old
Testament’s genesis as the truth. That Darwin’s evolution denigrates man it his ascent toward “house money” and divine
providence.
IV
Finally within the limitations
of the digital century, President Obama and Governor Romney, had ther own “go”
at it in a town hall forum held in the Big Apple’s backyard. Eloquent gifted
public orators and debaters, they fought out their positions, rallying their
supporters like it was the fiery debates of the Lincoln Douglas debates a
hundred and fifty years ago.
Probing and penetrating
weaknesses and intangibles, their mobile experienced tongues “spritzed” the truth of their party’s brethren, the
moderator and the questioning participants defining their moment of being alive.
The excitement and the buzz thru
the classrooms of international power and the campus flavor
of Hofstra’s Hempstead campus.
TV cameras, parking lots and the
global internet links and dinky rink satellite connections.
Revolution
War’s”Battle of Long Island” October 16,
2012
