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...humane, honest, and free. Hence Langmann cannot believe that the coolie offers him his canteen: Langmann thinks that the coolie has a rock and intends to kill him. Society concurs; at Langmann's trial, the Judge decides that "such is the rule: an eye for an eye. Only a fool waits for the exception. A man of sense would not expect something to drink from his enemy." And with a final turn of the screw, overseen by the "God up in heaven, God of things as they are," Brecht ends his sermon...
Imagine the contempt and derision with which this was received in Langdell, Baker, Littauer, William James, and the Computer Center. With all the important skills necessary to manipulate a great university, the godstruck old fool had cited something as intangible as a belief. For it was not only Pusey's belief in God which was pitiful and funny: it was his belief in belief of any kind. Nothing more amuses the men who run this university--and their compatriots who run our society--than people with beliefs and no power...
Richard Nixon--Milhous, Nixon!, et al. not withstanding is no fool. Like any good political card player, he knows where his hand is strong. Given the backing of Big Money and the solvency of the national Republican party Nixon knows he holds the Ace and King of Diamonds for the upcoming campaign. The success of a series of $100-a-plate-and-up dinners and other fund-raising ploys has also made him long in the Diamonds suit...
...hundred of them are now on exhibition in Paris at the Left Bank Nikon Gallery, and BB herself -false freckles and all-turned up for the opening, urging the press to take plenty more pictures ("What do you think I came here for?"). Anyone would have been a fool not to. "The only way you can mess up a picture of Brigitte," says Dussart modestly, "is to forget to put film in your camera...
Izzy, though, has no regrets. "I've shown that if you want to be a stubborn damn fool, you can do it your way and get away with it and make a living," he says. "It was a form of self-indulgence, and I've had a wonderful time at it. With all due respect to the New York Times, I'd rather have had these 19 years being editor of this fly sheet than editor of the Times...