But most of the administration's attention has centred on something else Mr Bush announced soon after taking office: America's supposed "energy crisis".The idea that America can ever strive for any form of energy independence is bogus: though it sits on just 3% of the world's oil reserves, it consumes a quarter of global oil production.
One translation renders it as, "We will ever strive for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many; We will unceasingly seek to quicken the sense of public duty; We will revere and obey the city's laws".
And they share the hipsters' contempt for respectability; they, too, feel alienated from adult culture (including spelling and grammar), and they, too, value Dionysian sensation as The Greatest and ever strive to Get With It.
Never arrogant or smug, but pragmatic and purposeful, ever striving to do good.
Therefore the Sage rules by emptying their hearts (minds) and filling their bellies, weakening their wills and strengthening their bones, ever striving to make the people knowledgeless and desireless.
Death makes life meaningless because everything we have ever striven for ceases when life does, and it makes life meaningful, too, because its presence makes the little we have of it indispensable, every moment precious".
The Queen herself followed the 70's Britcom (starring Paul Eddington and Penelope Keith) about the Leadbetters, ever striving for material success, and their neighbors the Goods, who are determined to live off the suburban land.
Mr. Bush's necktie and suit jacket come and go, and his spaniel, Spot, darts in and out of the frame as the would-be president teeters between images of engagement and disengagement, authority and levity, ever striving for the perfect balance.
For those for ever striving to regain the intoxication of having been a gilded god at 18, a cabinet post shines as the equivalent of election to Pop, and the prime ministerial job as the ultimate combination of head boy and victor ludorum.
He declares that "the only places on earth that have ever strived for a clean environment all share two characteristics: free people and free markets".
Movement 3, "" (Besides You is no doctor to be found) is an aria for alto with the obbligato flauto piccolo, which according to Mincham, employs a "figuration ever striving upwards, moderates the underlying sense of potential tragedy".
