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...Their rapacious, down-to-earth attitudes contrast with the almost noble characterisation of Byrne, who was said to be a gentle soul, an easy target for exploitation....
...Cassandra famously committed murder twice but got off on grounds of insanity....
...The Prussian king, inspired by Voltaire, drafted a tale that depicts the Aztec monarch as noble and sensitive. Cortés, by contrast, is brutal and unscrupulous. But he wins....
...Habermas always finds reasons to be positive, to mutate from Cassandra into Pollyanna. And not just a European Pollyanna, but a global one....
...Otherwise, your government will expire from its own noble fastidiousness. The writer is an FT contributing editor...
...Productions include Cassandra, in which a Greek myth is transformed into a ballet and transposed to 1950s Italy, and My Fair Lady, sung in Estonian....
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