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At the time his argument was dismissed but one can now see that he is attempting something that Friedrich von Schiller achieved in plays like Wallenstein and Don Carlos: to combine a study of the political process with the story of a doomed individual.
The difference is that Posner treats the play as the tragedy of a doomed individual, whereas Ayckbourn, admittedly with all the resources of the National Theatre at his disposal, in addition gave us a portrait of a community.
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"The AIDS story has been limited to depictions of doomed individuals," and not impassioned, ad hoc communities, she said.
(It could be expanded to include "doomed" individuals that develop disease with no exposure, or "immune" individuals that have an infinite threshold).
Individuals have the right not to be defined as parts of a planetary conspiracy or a doomed race.
A doomed policy?
Unscrambling California seems a doomed task.
4) Solar is a doomed industry.
The ants were a doomed people in a besieged city.
It's a doomed form of loyalty.
"Being here gives me a doomed feeling," he said.
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