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...means should he attempt to make the choices himself--that should be left to the politicians--for he may ignore the social and political implications of his decision. There is nothing new about any of this, but Black puts it in a simple, exemplary fashion that makes the cant of the campaign seem properly absurd. "The mere fact that a river runs down-hill very fast," he says, "is not sufficient reason to build a power...
...them cant about decorum...
...called him "Lord" Timothy and he gloried in the title. In his curious book called A Pickle for the Knowing Ones; or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress, he proclaimed: "Ime the first Lord in the younited States of Amercay ... It is the voice of the peopel and I cant help it." He kept a private poet and had him crowned at an elaborate public ceremony, once brought a lion from New York and invited the public to his house to look at him, "nine pence, each person." Long before his death, he had an elaborate tomb built...
...housing. It does not tackle the hard, basic job of building an industrial economy that will routinely produce good-paying jobs and good housing. Doing that job, says Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, U.S. delegation chief at Bogota, and a thoughtful banker with a refreshing disdain for diplomatic cant, may easily cost $10 billion...
...preciosity generally supposed to be standard swamp-warfare issue for Southern writers. The novel is an account of an awakening to good and evil, and a faint catechistic flavor may have been inevitable. But it is faint indeed; Novelist Lee's prose has an edge that cuts through cant, and she teaches the reader an astonishing number of useful truths about little girls and about Southern life. (A notable one:"Naming people after Confederate generals makes slow steady drinkers.") All in all, Scout Finch is fiction's most appealing child since Carson McCullers' Frankie got left behind...