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It certainly evokes an image of a romantic fairy-tale … but, when considered in light of its origin, it's nowhere near as flattering a nickname as it was intended to be.
What prompted Jackie's analogy was the Lerner and Loewe musical "Camelot", which presents the kingdom ruled by King Arthur as a place built on lofty principles, more idyllic than Eden. The plot, however, focuses on the forces out to destroy Camelot — the adulterous romance between Lancelot and Arthur's queen, Guenevere, and the machinations of Arthur's bitter illegitimate son, Mordred. Arthur, though witty and idealistic, is not very adept at thinking for himself or dealing with the thornier aspects of government.
It's not exactly the most uplifting epitaph for a fallen leader. While Jackie meant the comparison to be positive, highlighting the hope and potential ushered in with the inauguration, it is unfortunately rooted in a story of a weak and cuckolded leader, whose best work barely warrants a mention. The problem with creating a myth around a person is that, no matter how much is known, it distorts the truth and will evolve over time.
A few dozen centuries ago, historians had little choice but to use mythology as a basis for their work, and were in any case shaping the telling to suit their purposes, rather than being slaves to accuracy. It's almost embarrassingly easy for a modern historian to record facts, but mythology is still in there, mucking up the works. People latch onto "Camelot," much more than either Kennedy the man or the politician. The myth of King Arthur changed over the years — if the original version had informed "Camelot," it would be much more complimentary.
Arthur, first chronicled in Geoffrey of Monmouth's circa Historia Regum Britanniae pdf , is a rock star. The story is replete with magic, dragons, a sword named Caliburn and a lance named Ron. Decapitated statues, graffiti-covered restaurants and rusting roller coasters were all that was left amongst the overgrown vines.
Some rollercoasters such as Whirlwind were sold and relocated to Skyline Park in Germany, but others remained in the abandoned park. In , the park was taken over by the Granada Group and ran alongside its now defunct sister parks American Adventure and Granada Studios Tour. In June , the park was subject to a management buyout and by Camelot's visitors had fell to just , each year.
Prime Resorts announced that the park was in receivership in February , and would not reopen for the season that year. It was then leased to Knight's Leisure who ran it until its closure in , when staff members lost their jobs.
An application to build houses there by owners Story Group was unanimously rejected by Chorley Council in , after it was met with public objections and was not permissible within the Green Belt. Counterinsurgency Peru. Seymour Martin Lipset, the reknowned Berkeley sociologist, is writing on "Military Planning and Some Implications of National Development," a cross-national study of students' contributions to stability or instability in a nation, and an examination of the development of educational institutions and their relationship to the modernization process in Latin America.
The Air Force has contracted Hebrew University in Israel for "Innovation, Social Change and Institutionalization," a study of conditions facilitating or impeding the acceptance of the modern Western way of life. Selected Third World countries' successes or failures to bring about orderly change will be measured against the Israeli experience.
Apparently nothing but the most superficial lessons were culled from Project Camelot. The conscience and consciousness of the social scientist seems to have remained essentially untouched.
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