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After my determination to experience something new and different, this ending to my saga may sound like rather a copout: adversity struck and like a whimpering coward I fled back to familiarity. Perhaps so. Perhaps I am nothing more than a thin-blooded weakling, unable to stand up to the challenge of strangeness. I prefer to think that I just really enjoy a good night's sleep...
...just say 'West Indian' because I'm so mixedup--it's not just a copout," Auguste says. "WestIndian' kind of takes care of everything...
...attributing the Crimson's lack of offensive punch to bad luck was a copout--until Saturday here at Franklin Field...
...final scene which serves as a sort of bizarre postscript. Dap runs into the center of campus yelling "Wake up!" and inexplicably, the major factions come together. Presumably, Lee is instructing his audience to rise above the prejudice, infighting and blindness portrayed in the film. But it's a copout. Lee is trying to distance himself from the harshness of the world he has depicted. But the audience has been bombarded with animosity and anger for two relentless hours. Lee's attempt to depict some sort of reconciliation is too little too late...
...LACK OF A BETTER term let's call this mental copout "Issue Separation Disease" (ISD, since acronyms seem all the rage these days). A brief description of it might read something like "a tendency to reduce the U.S./Soviet rivalry to dozens of discrete issue areas amenable to separate discussion and resolution." ISD strikes Western liberals particularly hard. In fact, they appear to be the only affected group, and only when they discuss foreign policy. Here are just a few of the easily-diagnosed symptoms...