Article: Beware of common sense COMMENT & DEBATE

Article: 'TOM PAINE' LACKS DRAMATIC COMMON ...
The Boston Globe;  March 7, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... army cot) when Tom Paine enters his tent ... incendiary pamphlet "Common Sense," which has set ... everything else in 'Common Sense,' Mr. Paine ... Fast. "Citizen Tom Paine" is Fast's sore ... we learn that Tom Paine: 1) was given ... that he wrote "Common ...

Article: Tom Paine, look what you started!: WHY REVVED-UP, ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports. American polemics date back to 18th century pamphleteers like Tom Paine (Common Sense was a best-seller, too), but it's hard to recall a recent time when the style was this ascendant. If ...

Article: Tom Paine proves to be a 'Royal Paine"
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  January 4, 2009 ;     632 words ... ... fitting that the author of "Common Sense" was named Paine, because ... England's King George III. Tom Paine's "Common Sense," published this week (Jan ... colonists were thinking, but "Common Sense" also was well written and ...

Article: history philip hoare discovers how many people were connected to ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  January 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Here, 200 years ago, Tom Paine, revolutionary author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man ... uncertain: who exactly was Tom Paine? It is a question which ... sponge - was entitled Medical Common Sense in tribute to Paine. Anti ...

Article: "Working a powerful change": Tom Paine: how did a ...
Junior Scholastic;  October 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... prompt: Why is Tom Paine considered one ... Paine published Common Sense anonymously, and ... Debate: Was Tom Paine an Englishman or ... Discuss: If Common Sense had argued against ... citizens. Then came Common Sense, the work of a ... Colonies named Tom ...

Article: Oscar Wilde, the Burghers of Calais, and now Tom ...
The Independent - London;  January 31, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... you could imagine for Tom Paine being - as the film ... statue came from the Common Sense Club. This is a new ... which intends to further Tom Paine's belief in the democratic ... including the monarchy. The Common Sense Club believes that ...

Article: Tom Paine: A Political Life.
The New Leader;  May 8, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... man he had in mind was Tom Paine, author of the four ... pamphlets of his day: Common Sense, The Crisis, Rights ... John Keane maintains in Tom Paine: A Political Life ... inability to organize. Common Sense was published in January ...