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...father and son often settle down in the private study off the Oval Office and discuss everything from matters of state to whether or not to breed the family's female golden retriever, Liberty. (The decision: the dog has been flown to Oregon to be bred with a record-holding stud.) Properly minimizing his influence, Jack sums up his role with typical Ford realism and restraint: "All I can do is open up ideas to him, and maybe have an effect that...
...Twain called "a long walk spoiled," miniature golf is a short stroll enhanced. The most enhancing stroll enhanced. The most enhancing spot around for this activity lies on Route 9 in Natick, the west-of-Boston's answer to Route 1, which is the local habitual of a strange breed of the populace known as the Highway People. The Highway People never leave the freeway: they live in trailer parks, and move on when the spirit moves them (or when the notoriously prison-like mortgages and other traps of these mobile home oases allow it); they take nourishment at roadside...
...labor will not fairly purchase it." David Ricardo worked out what became known as the "iron law of wages." His thesis: workers in the long run would get only the bare minimum necessary to keep themselves and their families alive. If they temporarily should earn more, they would breed so many children that competition for jobs eventually would drive wages down again. Ricardo did not think that this state of affairs was desirable?only inevitable. Nonetheless, he and Malthus earned for capitalist economics a name that it has never shaken; Thomas Carlyle had them in mind when he referred...
...anti-heroes are a kid on the run from middle-class respectability (Jeff Bridges) and his faithful half-breed companion (Sam Waterston), who seems, in his inarticulate way, to aspire to the free life enjoyed by his Indian ancestors. They begin the film as prankish, thoughtless one-cow-at-a-time rustlers. They end it in Rancho Deluxe-a prison camp-after they fail to pull off a major cattle heist. Their nemesis is the biggest, most blustering rancher in Montana (Clifton James); his name is Brown. Their undoing is an ancient range detective (Slim Pickens) who is smart enough...
What he meant was this: The oncoming generations and classes, while making their mark individually, have not been able to dislodge the WW II breed, call it the Class of '50 if you want, from the ultimate domination of things...