Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution is a 2009 documentary broadcast on BBC Two in July 2009. In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy are Slavoj Žižek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who
The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad in "Harmonium", the other elements being "The Snow Man" and "Tea at the Palaz of Hoon." To master the triad is to reach "the center of Stevens' poetic and human anxieties and of his resources for meeting those anxieties". "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad" represents a moment in "Harmonium"s progress in which the poet proclaims diffidence about his future creativity. The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, "Harmonium." First published in 1921, it is in the public domain in the United States. One point