In the early years of the Cold War, personal radicalism, revolution in the head and in the bed, was the safer radicalism.
Crowley's version never lets you forget that O'Casey's play takes place during the bitter Civil War: personal dramas are always shadowed by national traumas.
In filming "The Trench," I wanted to make the First World War personal again, to recreate a world that could have contained my grandfather and my great uncle, whose photographs sit today upon the mantelpiece in my study.
Cold Mountain features some of the themes that Minghella dealt with in The English Patient, based on another complex novel about love and war, personal responsibility and the impersonal forces of historical change.
Ernst Stadler's diary is on display as part of The Great War: Personal Stories from Downing Street to the Trenches until 2 November, at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
Unbridled enthusiasm is nothing new for Ron Paul, whose crowds on Monday lived up to their reputation, cheering for opposition to the war, personal liberty and restricting the activity of the Federal Reserve.
