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...good as the next fellow" is not always a realistic or even noble sentiment. Equality as similarity is a hopeless goal, as any plain girl realizes when she watches the progress of a pretty woman down a street. People are favored by nature, birth or fortune; they outdo others by talent, effort and luck. Many equality arguments turn on trying to redress the inequities of "them as has gits...
Situation Hopeless--But Not Serious. Alec Guinness in a stylish British comedy. Ch. 7, 11:30 p.m. 2 hours...
...Germany; or the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto, goaded beyond endurance or hope into a desperate refusal to submit. And that is why--even a year after the cease-fire--the most intemperate attacks on those who forced the Vietnamese to such desperate straits, who called forth such hopeless and inhuman heroism, continue to make sense...
...just to people's failure to live up to their ideals, but to the sickness at the heart of ideals that rank continence above saving lives and spur people to die and kill and sacrifice themselves, not for a future where that will be less necessary but in a hopeless quest for a merely personal righteousness. The play is about the inevitable injustice of middle-class justice, which measures justice out as though it were possible to measure people's lives by absolute, fixed units like the monetary standards on which the play's moralists finally rest their morality. Isabel...
...just don't have the money to pass around," Watson said in an interview last week. "I'm in a hopeless position...