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Sleeper still has Allen deactivating the fuses of an audience's most fiendishly paranoiac fantasies. But there's much more of the awareness that the world's crazy, not him. His savvy comes from the city rat's instinct for survival. He knows that the witty things he says are idiotic and absurd, but he also knows that they are a defense mechanism. In 2173 he can roll sophisticated eyes at the lifestyle of the futuristic zombies that surround him, no matter how much they intimidate him. He's more cynical than they are, which becomes a heroic trait...
That combative instinct, which enabled Sirica to rise to his greatest courtroom challenge, has marked much of his career. Combined with a handy temper, it has also led him to be reversed on appeal more often than most judges on the average, and has brought protests from civil libertarians. Late in 1972, for example, he jailed the Los Angeles Times's Washington bureau chief, John Lawrence, for contempt of court when the newsman failed to produce tape recordings of a Watergate-related interview (the appeals court promptly freed Lawrence). Although sensitive about criticism, Sirica reacts typically by fighting back...
...familiar trappings of sport, though, dog racing does have a darker side. The dogs are trained as killers. To reinforce the greyhounds' hunting instinct-the breed was first imported from England and Ireland to kill jack rabbits that were destroying crops -their training usually concentrates on the pursuit and killing of real rabbits. These bloody sessions, called coursings, are still run publicly in Abilene, Kans., every year. In Florida, however, they will be banned for training or public racing at the end of this year. The reason: one bloodthirsty promoter put live white rabbits-Easter bunnies-on his track...
Sanders said that Harvard must develop a "killer instinct," feeding the big men--Jenkins and Lou Silver--when they are scoring easily. Silver scored 24 points and pulled down 11 rebounds on Tuesday and, as Sanders said, "he rose to the occasion...
...book is not a biography, Thomas convincingly illustrates the days of McCarthy's life. He settles on the metaphor of the buccaneer, and the book's thesis--if it can be said to have one--is that McCarthy had neither principles nor politics, but only the pirate's instinct to hit and run. One wonders why Thomas insists on so distinguishing this book as a non-biography. To be sure, he has glossed over the Senator's childhood and concentrated on McCarthy's age of glory. But what has he gained? He still views history with the biographer's myopia...