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...seen in the reactions of, say, high school students to the character of Hud. He is a dynamic, attractive human being. But judged by his actions, he is an unmitigated bastard, motivated solely out of self interest: he sleeps with other men's wives, he drives his Cadillac over flower beds, he tries to have his father declared incompetent so that he can get control of the old man's property. Yet high school students have adopted him as a hero; they admire his bravado, his coolness, and they either ignore his amorality or admire that...
...much loved the passing moment, the play of sunlight, the delights of the body, to surrender them to philosophical principle. In fact, he loved life with a fervor that is even more apparent in his notebooks than in his formal writings. "Every year the young girls come into flower on the beaches," he wrote with characteristic sweetness about Oran. "They have only one season. The following year, they are replaced by other flower-like faces, which, the previous season, still belonged to little girls. For the man who looks at them, they are yearly waves whose weight and splendor break...
Ferment & Passion. Nourishing this flower of public education is one of the richest cities in the U.S. Beverly Hills (pop. 32,000) has families getting along on $10,000 or so. But much of it is a lotus land of rich brokers, industrialists, movie producers, and more psychiatrists per psyche than anywhere else in the country. Going for it is an assessed real-estate valuation of $239 million and the smallest ratio of schoolchildren to population (about 1 to 7) in California. As a result, it has the lowest school-tax rate of any sizable school district in the state...
...added furniture, even acquired television sets. They do calisthenics to keep in shape, and to while away the days, they paint, write letters and read (translations of Sherwood Anderson, Rousseau, Hemingway). The Paraguayan ambassador gives them money for food and clothes; Juan picks up a little extra from a flower shop investment down the street; Luis has a small appliance-repair business. In the evenings their families come by for dinner; several nights a week their wives sleep...
...mastery in the discipline of his choice has earned for him a high place among the church's men of vision who in our time are bringing to flower a creative conversation between Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians...