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...quiet country town is almost palpably evil, a microcosm of the easy enmity and casual brutality that David and Amy hoped to leave behind them. It is a place isolated, almost abstracted, from the rest of the world. The villagers regard David with a cordial disdain. Amy is seen as one of their own who has deserted them and returned with slightly lofty airs. Some of the men of the village, while helping fix up a rented farmhouse for the couple, make casual sport of ogling Amy and discussing her attractions...
...pithy bite of aphorisms, and as out-of-context fragments, they lose much of the slyly inflected wit that is one of the special pleasures of reading Beerbohm. The tone is wrong too. Clive Revill employs a voice and manner of waspish arrogance, whereas benign scorn or amused disdain would be truer...
Would a man with such control over his inner life, a long time man's feel for time, and a committed man's disdain for waste have killed John Mills? Would he have killed Mills when the real focus of vengence, O.G. Miller, was still alive in Soledad? Moreover, would the death of three more inmates have driven Jackson out of the firm balance of his reason to the irrationality of revenge...
Perhaps more important, the caliber of the President's prospective appointees re-emphasizes his disdain for the court, The President has every right to name Justices who he expects will reflect his constitutional philosophy, but there is no shortage of better-qualified judicial talent among both Southern and women jurists. Unhappily, not one of Nixon's candidates has attained or even approached judicial distinction...
Second, let's get rid of free tickets for the academic types around here who disdain contact sports. Not only are these students not likely to go, but if they appear, they are not likely to be impressed by the results of a football game into giving more funds as alumni. A sports test should be administered during freshman orientation week. Those who score over 560 will be given tickets. Those scoring under 560 may take a seminar in Sports A and eventually qualify...