Brazilian blocos ignore ban on Carnival celebrations.

Las Meninas (detail), by Diego Velázquez, 1656. Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.
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If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCLapham’s
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Olivier Zunz
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville. More