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...their uncivilized behavior in automobiles. Not so their children. Asked by Vienna's mass-circulation Kurier to submit letters describing the driving habits of their fathers, several hundred schoolchildren, aged 9 to 14, handed down a nearly unanimous verdict: the Viennese male, normally mild-mannered, becomes a raging brute behind the wheel...
...Frank Hatch, an American dancer now studying capoeira in Salvador, the growth of the folk art is only natural. "Brazilians are very proud of their mental quickness," he says. "They like to live by their wits; capoeira is not a sport of brute force but rather of outwitting the other fellow." Agrees Bimba: "Capoeira is something truly Brazilian-it's our own blend...
...defined war as foreign policy by other means, La Cosa Nostra regards murder as an instrument of business-often conducted with a vengeance. The peculiar vogue that the Mafia is now enjoying in films and books may spring from a kind of stylish atavism that Americans recognize in a brute feudal system that allows swift retribution with no red tape. In part, it simply appeals to the antibureaucratic impulse, the secret instinct that things can be "fixed," even in satisfyingly violent ways. For the moment, many still find the Mob romantically sinister and enterprising, but the popular infatuation may fade...
...friends back in Greece, and the confused happiness of the bright scholars here. The carefree intellectual who studies the world as if it were an interesting puzzle, who describes the film 'Z' as "a great thriller", and who laughs at stories of comically disorganized people who were suppressed by brute force, is a constant reminder of the old wisdom that one can only learn from one's own mishaps, and that one cannot look for help to those who will not realize that life, to some people at least, is not a joke. And yet we always hope that...
Critic Leslie Fiedler called it an "inhumanly virginal landscape," shuddered at the "atrocious magnificence of the mountains, the illimitable brute fact of the prairies." He was right. Montana is elusive, too vast to comprehend. It almost seems indecent for a land so big to have a population so small: 701,000 people in all, or five to every square mile of atrocious magnificence. Each resident reflects the Montana character: a cussed inconsistency that some people call rugged individualism. It is a trait bestowed by birthright ("You're not a Montanan until you've weathered 40 winters," the saying...