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Such relentless optimism provides ready ammunition to those who would prefer to gloss over genuine problems. Statistics documenting what Wallenberg, in a dreadful stylislic lapse, calls the "deeliticization of American higher education," say nothing about the quality of life on campus. Nor does the claim that aimless retirement or a dreary nursing 'home are belter for the elderly than "dying in the traces" provide much comfort for hungry old people languishing on park benches...
Spain also attracted less political types, the Robert Jordans of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. This is not the aimless, rootless Jake in Pamplona, but a committed American from Idaho who leaves his post as a schoolteacher to help the Spanish people defend their liberty. Jordan--laconic, straightforward, and uncomplicated--joins a group of Spanish peasants working behind the Nationalist lines and, while working with them to blow up an enemy supply bridge, comes to feel less of an alien among these backward people. In the three tense days of preparation he senses his impending death, almost kills...
Daddy died when Merle was nine, ending the ball games and the fishing trips and turning the boy into an aimless rebel...
...took graduate chemistry courses and worked as a laboratory assistant to Biologist Robert Macy, who has described her as "interested in drugs and consciousness-raising-type pursuits." In February 1973, her six-year marriage to Black Pianist Gilbert Scott Perry broke up, and she began a drifting, seemingly aimless existence, working variously as a topless blackjack dealer in a North Beach nightclub and selling soft drinks from an outdoor stand. On Jan. 10 she fled a rented house in suburban Concord used by the S.L.A. as a headquarters, after trying to set fire to the contents, which included BB guns...
Thieves Like Us would be filed under the subheading "On the Road: Crime and Aimless Kids." That has been a flourishing category ever since the success of Bonnie and Clyde, but Thieves Like Us has an even more direct ancestor. It is a remake of Nicholas Ray's excellent They Live by Night (1947), which, along with Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once, set the model in the first place. As usual, Altman supplies not an answer but an alternative to the styles and conventions of the genre...