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In suggesting that Washingtonians accept Marion Barry at face value, Suzi Gookin and Safiya (The Mail, 6/6 & 6/20) actually prove only that high schools and universities need to require the study of Shakespeare. Hamlet himself summed up the situation nicely: “O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tablesmeet it is I set it down, that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I’m sure it may be so in Denmark.”
Essay question (be brief): “Do
you think this type of genial maleficence only occurs in Scandinavia?
Give examples.”
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