Word: answering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national malaise poses a civic puzzle: Are Americans obliged to vote, even for candidates they dislike? Purists have sometimes overstated a yes answer. Dictatorships often force people to vote for handpicked candidates and then proudly proclaim that participation hit 95% or more. By contrast, the U.S. right to vote carries with it a right not to vote, to register a negative protest, and most Americans would balk at hav ing it any other way. Even so, they sometimes forget that people the world over have often died fighting for even the crudest kind of franchise. Well aware of that struggle...
...question that is always asked about New York can be asked about any other metropolis in the U.S. today: Is it governable? Under its present antique structure, the answer is quickly becoming obvious...
This film, based on Gerold Frank's nonfiction bestseller and shot mostly on location in Boston, confidently supplies the answer. He is Albert DeSalvo,* a lumpish schizophrene with a wife and two kids. Most of the time DeSalvo (Tony Curtis) is a brooding but law-abiding mechanic. But there are moments when he turns into another self, a compulsive, soft-spoken psychopath who can kill at the drop of a door latch...
Most writers would raise an inch or so of suds atop this murky flow of events. Bowen tells the story in a series of sharp, enclosed scenes with irony, dry humor and a terse, elliptical style. She sets pragmatists against emotionalists, opportunists against those who answer only to the hungers of the heart. Like Portia Quayne, the heroine of Bowen's best-known novel. Death of the Heart, Eva leads a life totally unlit by love. She attracts people, but when they reach out for her, they grope in darkness...
...silly question and you get a silly answer. If the reader is as persistent and as humorless as the anonymous interrogator, he gets 122 pages of very silly answers indeed...