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...suggested, because "only one thing counts in love-it is the brief encounter." Added a financier, "The principal quality of a woman is neither beauty nor charm nor intelligence, it is novelty." Equally unexpected is Baroche's revelation that the French lover of fabled expertise is a vanishing breed; many men were simply bored with the foreplay in lovemaking. "I have a horror of the preliminaries of love," one of them confided. "The process of taking off one's clothes becomes a handicap with habit." In short, the smooth French lover, typified for millions by Charles Boyer...
...public indignation is a prerequisite to the enforcement of law remains an enigma. I had supposed the protection of the public through legal processes was the fundamental excuse for a government's existence. But if the weapon of public indignation is required to "knock off" the new breed of gentle hoods, let us indignate...
...that of a spoiled rotten (albeit sensitive, self-deprecating, gentle, all the things you learn to value in a place like Harvard) brat. Not a brat in the old sense of the word, of course, not the overtly selfish sort who demands things and his own way, but the breed that seems to flourish particularly in the intellectual North-east and coastal West, the sort who quietly takes what his old man gives, has no intention of forsaking all the conveniences and comforts, and whose ultimate selfishness is his pitiful (and futile) attempt to preserve his own moral integrity...
...success quite accurately; often they would over estimate the number of people ahead of them as a pessimistic cushion against being disappointed. But just behind the point, people consistently underestimated the size of the crowd ahead of them. The latecomer, the researchers conclude, is one of a special, desperate breed. He is blessed - or cursed - with an automatic mechanism for justifying the folly of sticking around and for "reassuring himself that his prospects are still good." The point in a line where pessimists shade into optimists, Mann and Taylor imply, is a good place for cooler heads to decide...