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GLUM AND GLUMMER MOVIES Critics often groan about mindlessly optimistic tripe from Hollywood. But in 1995 many of them found moral instruction, even art, in mindlessly pessimistic tripe--grotty little films about how rotten life is. If it wasn't the self-destructive singer in Georgia, it was a moony, whiny Priest or some horny, joyless Kids. Cheer up, folks; life ain't that bad. Only movies...
...LONG HAVE WESTERN RANCHERS benefited from their low-cost rental of federal lands. But when the Federal Government puts restrictions on the use of this economic advantage, the ranchers have the audacity to moan and groan. If these Westerners wish to have "rights of use" to this land, let them pay the market price. Then they will be in a better position to negotiate terms with the Federal Government. All things have their price. RUSSELL A. MACCACHRAN, Boulder, Colorado
Finally, and perhaps most notably, glance around at the Harvard crowd. Needless to say, the fair-weather Harvard fans had much to groan about after a 5-8-3 home record last year, along with several mentionings from players that it was less pressurized to play on the road. Luckily for the Harvard hockey program--excepting organic chemistry equations, U.C. scandals, and rejected applications--Harvard students' memories are short...
...rise of capitalism over the past two centuries has meant that all the resources of technology and free enterprise could at last be placed at the disposal of the enduring human fascination with grunt and groan. By the early decades of the present century, there had emerged in the U.S. an entertainment industry that would eventually prove to be all-pervasive and ever more given to decking out our base impulses with sweaty and imaginative detail. It awaited only the youth culture that began stirring and shaking in the 1950s to take full advantage of the possibilities in rock, films...
Robert Coles lectures about the moral life of children. Journalists groan about the [im] moral life of politics. And with the coming of the 21st century, the moral life of sports is beginning to dominate the spotlight...