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...cynical. There are some elements of imperial Britain in his attitude--Arabs tend to smell, for example, and Americans are vulgar and prone to cowboy delusions. There is a mystifying section in The Schirmer Inheritance where a woman whose family has been killed by the Gestapo--a rabid German-hater--falls passionately in love with a dominant and brutal ex-Nazi, as though this is the other side of the coin. But in general Ambler has a wide and realistic understanding of how the world works: each book is rich in historical detail, psychological insight, and another added element which...
...Hater. He recognizes that his present advantages as a non-candidate will dissolve fast if he jumps into the race. "I'll become the immediate target," he says. There is another possible consequence Humphrey does not mention: his present appealing confidence and coolness might dissolve in the heat of a campaign...
...struck by a remark British Prime Minister Harold Wilson made to him a few years ago, that sometimes a country needs a leader who can seem more like a family doctor. It helps Humphrey understand why people receive him so cheerfully now. He says, "I'm not a hater...
...Greatest is at its best when Ali has others, and himself, analysing and talking about Ali. Ali is clearly very conscious of his media image, of a loud-mouth braggart, sadist (particularly after the Floyd Patterson bouts), and racist white hater. Ali wants to present himself in another light, to offer the public the "real" Ali. He tells us of his early sex life, and his flubbing of a chance with a hooker when he was 16 because he didn't know what to do. He dwells on his shyness with women (a shyness which one suspects still exists). There...
...swarthy boy with lank straight hair, who might almost pass for a Hindu." At that point his parents farmed him out to relatives in England, sadistic moralists after the Dickensian type who brutalized him until public school took over. The battered child became a lifelong hater who never quite managed to spit out all his venom...