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...Governor Zell Miller, who shared a double desk with Lance and has remained a good friend ever since. "It's really something to be that popular when the rest of the children in the class come to school in their one pair of overalls and only pair of brogan shoes...
...weaken national resolve, but to bolster it -although that resolve ebbed when the gas pumps flowed. In these cases, moral equivalency worked because the crises were perceived as serious but not desperate (the embargo) or desperate but not serious (the blackout). Americans could wryly agree with Historian D.W. Brogan's citation of the contrast between democratic government and the nondemocratic, which "is like a splendid ship, with all its sails set; it moves majestically on, then it hits a rock and sinks for ever. Democracy is like a raft. It never sinks, but damn it, your feet are always...
British Critic Sir Denis Brogan liked to tell about an incident that happened just after President Andrew Jackson died. A visitor attending his funeral asked one of Jackson's slaves whether he thought the general would go to heaven. The slave replied, "He will if he wants to." Brogan added the moral: General Jackson was and is a symbol of the typical American...
...this affable, unambitious movie, Nightclub Comedian Jackie Mason appears as a grubby police informer named Roger Pittman, who heads for Miami and a big time with $7,500 from the police contingency fund. Brogan (Dan Frazer), the cop who lent Roger the money as a means to trap a crook, lights out after him. With a couple of days' head start, though, Roger is already spending like crazy. He installs himself in an expensive hotel room, acquires an eye-numbing resort wardrobe and falls in love with a lonely number from Long Island (Marcia Jean Kurtz...
Roger has spent nearly all the 7,500 bucks, so when Brogan tracks him down he has almost nothing to return. The stoolie, the cop and the girl friend then form an unlikely trio, trying to figure a means to make the money back. There is a final burst of sentimentality that manages to promise both happy futures and just deserts. It also reveals the sappy foundation beneath the movie's superficially tough exterior, like a stand-up comic who spikes his patter with a tear...