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...such a manner: his characters grate against our hearts and reason, and yet, as much as we may wish to do so, we are unable to dismiss them as insane. Repeatedly denigrating himself as “the new boy” and just a “flat-foot,” Martens accepts his share of responsibility for the murders he helped commit as part of the secret police. He does not attempt to pass the blame off onto the inevitability of the system.It is unclear to what extent the characters in the novella are conscious...

Author: By Anna I. Polonyi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kertész Sleuths Human Cruelty | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Salaud, Cambridge, seven-thirty in the morning. The timeless, homeward, flat-foot tread of the night-cop down Plympton Street; the inchoate giggle of a street-corner Horatio in a black leather jacket; two red eyes in the shadows...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: DOWN and OUT in Cambridge | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...Salaud, Cambridge, seven-thirty in the morning. The time-less, homeward, flat-foot tread of the night-cop down Plympton Street; the inchoate giggle of a street-corner Horatio in a black leather jacket; two red eyes in the shadows...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Down 'n' Out in Cambridge: The Soybean Cult | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Georgia, more spectacular of the two, boasts the most publicized player of the year. Every football fan who can read knows about Frankie Sinkwich's flat feet, his un-Southern background (Youngstown, Ohio), his prima-donna temperament, his peculiar ability to knife inside tackle and the fact that he made 19 All-Americas last year despite a broken jaw. Flat-Foot Frankie was the nation's No. 1 ballcarrier last year. This fall he has discovered that he has a slingshot arm as well as flat feet. In the first six games of the season he rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Glory, Glory to Old Georgia | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...Slacker," sneered the flat-foot politician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: END QUOTE | 4/24/1940 | See Source »

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