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Mini-Anthology. Warren darkly foresees such art becoming ever more subversive in a brave new technology. Artists will be pariahs, ministering to the few who can recall the significance of democracy. This prediction smacks of the ivory tower. American artists have always felt more isolated than they really were. Though it has not always understood them, the U.S. middle class has in fact lionized its writers. As for American painters and sculptors, it is now impossible for them to épater les bourgeois. Today the bourgeoisie vie with each other for possession of the most avant-garde gesture. Given this...
...Brave Struggle. All the familiar material of rehabilitation melodrama is here: doubtful doctors and blind determination; parents trying to be brave, a fiancé who has pledged true love wilting away from the full force of the tragedy, other patients being both cynical and supportive as Jill masters her wheelchair. Her struggle is abetted by another skier, a cordial eccentric called "Mad Dog" Dick Buek (Beau Bridges) who wants to marry her. She greets his initial proposal with one of those speeches about pity that seem to be required by films like this the way a western needs a Shootout...
Kitty stuffed her lover's finicky stomach with the best English food, fussed over his frequent colds, and emptied his pockets when he came home from the wars. When he had to be away, he wrote her "Dear Wifey" notes asking her to be a "brave little woman"-letters, one reader has observed, "such as a kitchenmaid might receive from the underfootman...
...have her own band, her own household of brave foragers and pilferers, of makers and bakers and growers of their own food...
...many experts still thought that the Democrats faced nearly insurmountable odds. Reported TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil: "In these assessments, Congress comes off as a sorry, almost pitiful rival to the President. The brave initiatives of last January have become the cruel frustrations of now. The Democrats have lost their momentum, their sense of purpose and esprit. They are floundering in a political morass. They see themselves as disarrayed and helpless. But if with 289 members of the House they cannot act, they might as well call in the dogs. The hunting will be over...