Saturday, February 13, 2010, 07:00
is really over now. An end-date, with the record, with the costume, with reality. The Kennedy is consigned to history. The myth ends up crumpled in a drawer: the last heir said enough, and ended with Washington with a seat in Congress, with the policy and therefore the deal was that the family for more than sixty years. Patrick, here the former scion that locks the dynasty. He is the youngest son of Ted, the Senator died a few months ago. He sits in Congress, member of the State of Rhode Island for 16 years. Until November, until the mid-term elections that will pack the political history of this beloved family and chat, become mythological, even beyond the actual political significance of its components. Pat leaves crushed by the weight of being the ruler of something that is difficult to bear. The weight of a surname that is worth a lot, maybe too much, "I will continue to serve the public and use my political clout. I do not want to do 24 hours a day seven days a week. "
is the sunset of an era. The post-Depression, War, Reconstruction, the Sixties, the rebellion of the seventies, eighties and for the happiness of them was an ordeal, that the rampant Clintonian them back into play, the arrival Bush's mock-chic and the alternative family. The Kennedys are a thing of the twentieth century went through chapters, drawn into the protagonists even when they were not. Why the name was a certificate to use at will. That season is now a legend from the book, from documentary film. We have not finished viewing family photos on the beaches of Massachusetts, nor even those of their fathers, brothers and children in the rooms of the White House. We're finished, though, to see the faces that have made those images anachronistically present until yesterday. The farewell of his son Ted closes a season infinite: since 1946 there had always been a Kennedy in Washington. Congress or the White House. Power powered by mystery and charm, yellow, light and dark, the voices and whispers. John, Bobby, Ted, their children, their grandchildren, people become global. The name was enough to be part of a myth without space and time. The troubles and shady dealings have paradoxically fueled the greatness of the dynasty. There was a Kennedy happy in history. Either directly or indirectly. Patrick has not escaped: he battled mental illness, alcohol, addiction to drugs. An accident on Capitol Hill in 2006 while driving under the influence of the Environment had led him to rehab. He had returned to the clinic in 2009 with his father already being treated for brain cancer. The death of Ted was the watershed and food for thought. "Throughout the autumn Patrick took part in ceremonies in memory of his father. Christmas has finally had a moment to himself, "wrote the Rhode Island Monthly yesterday, on the site, published a long interview-profile:" I realized that having a private life at the moment is the thing I care about more. That there are human relationships that matter more than anything else. " For Patrick, who grew up without a mother struggling with alcoholism, Ted was a beacon, "The center of my universe," he said in December. Now all are racing to understand the motive, the reason for choosing to retire. Between sociology and psychology change. Is mostly friends of Kennedy, always in the balance between understanding and looting. Now talk about Darrell West, vice president of the Brookings Institution and author of a book about Patrick and how it is difficult to be a Kennedy. Explanations and readings interior: "It was his father's death. Made him understand that time is running and you can not stop. That we must live that special moment. " Yet that's not all. There is more, perhaps better. There is politics, especially. The awareness of not being what they were: powerful, fascinating, magnetic. Time has faded the image of JFK turning it into an icon of the rhetoric often deformed feel-good. And if John was not a saint, others were not. So America has begun to remove, replace, to pigeonhole: did a little 'history, but they can be put aside. And the blow, the family took it a few weeks ago in a victory for Scott Brown seat on which it was Ted. A Republican stronghold in Camelot. The end of the power was there. The end of the dynasty is now. The end of the myth is not there. Not yet.
http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/cosi_tramonta_lera_kennedy/13-02-2010/articolo-id=421441-page=0-comments=1
is really over now. An end-date, with the record, with the costume, with reality. The Kennedy is consigned to history. The myth ends up crumpled in a drawer: the last heir said enough, and ended with Washington with a seat in Congress, with the policy and therefore the deal was that the family for more than sixty years. Patrick, here the former scion that locks the dynasty. He is the youngest son of Ted, the Senator died a few months ago. He sits in Congress, member of the State of Rhode Island for 16 years. Until November, until the mid-term elections that will pack the political history of this beloved family and chat, become mythological, even beyond the actual political significance of its components. Pat leaves crushed by the weight of being the ruler of something that is difficult to bear. The weight of a surname that is worth a lot, maybe too much, "I will continue to serve the public and use my political clout. I do not want to do 24 hours a day seven days a week. "
is the sunset of an era. The post-Depression, War, Reconstruction, the Sixties, the rebellion of the seventies, eighties and for the happiness of them was an ordeal, that the rampant Clintonian them back into play, the arrival Bush's mock-chic and the alternative family. The Kennedys are a thing of the twentieth century went through chapters, drawn into the protagonists even when they were not. Why the name was a certificate to use at will. That season is now a legend from the book, from documentary film. We have not finished viewing family photos on the beaches of Massachusetts, nor even those of their fathers, brothers and children in the rooms of the White House. We're finished, though, to see the faces that have made those images anachronistically present until yesterday. The farewell of his son Ted closes a season infinite: since 1946 there had always been a Kennedy in Washington. Congress or the White House. Power powered by mystery and charm, yellow, light and dark, the voices and whispers. John, Bobby, Ted, their children, their grandchildren, people become global. The name was enough to be part of a myth without space and time. The troubles and shady dealings have paradoxically fueled the greatness of the dynasty. There was a Kennedy happy in history. Either directly or indirectly. Patrick has not escaped: he battled mental illness, alcohol, addiction to drugs. An accident on Capitol Hill in 2006 while driving under the influence of the Environment had led him to rehab. He had returned to the clinic in 2009 with his father already being treated for brain cancer. The death of Ted was the watershed and food for thought. "Throughout the autumn Patrick took part in ceremonies in memory of his father. Christmas has finally had a moment to himself, "wrote the Rhode Island Monthly yesterday, on the site, published a long interview-profile:" I realized that having a private life at the moment is the thing I care about more. That there are human relationships that matter more than anything else. " For Patrick, who grew up without a mother struggling with alcoholism, Ted was a beacon, "The center of my universe," he said in December. Now all are racing to understand the motive, the reason for choosing to retire. Between sociology and psychology change. Is mostly friends of Kennedy, always in the balance between understanding and looting. Now talk about Darrell West, vice president of the Brookings Institution and author of a book about Patrick and how it is difficult to be a Kennedy. Explanations and readings interior: "It was his father's death. Made him understand that time is running and you can not stop. That we must live that special moment. " Yet that's not all. There is more, perhaps better. There is politics, especially. The awareness of not being what they were: powerful, fascinating, magnetic. Time has faded the image of JFK turning it into an icon of the rhetoric often deformed feel-good. And if John was not a saint, others were not. So America has begun to remove, replace, to pigeonhole: did a little 'history, but they can be put aside. And the blow, the family took it a few weeks ago in a victory for Scott Brown seat on which it was Ted. A Republican stronghold in Camelot. The end of the power was there. The end of the dynasty is now. The end of the myth is not there. Not yet.
http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/cosi_tramonta_lera_kennedy/13-02-2010/articolo-id=421441-page=0-comments=1
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