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...forever either spring or summer. This balmy land of the blest, he said, lay on the 35th parallel of north latitude-in present-day North Carolina. Rallying to Raleigh, for whom North Carolina named its capital, Southerners have ever since believed in their hearts that their region is kindlier, lovelier and more conducive to the good life than any other patch of earth this side of paradise, and not without reason...
...jail. Hotel clerks save their haughtiest look for Russian travel groups. Even the B-girls are unfriendly. "We always recognize a Russian by his pointed shoes," says a miniskirted blonde at Dresden's Café Prag. "We refuse, of course." Not that the East Germans think much kindlier of their other East European neighbors. They have their own Polish jokes...
...much that is best and some that is worst-or perhaps silliest-in the American congressional tradition. His talent for the political about-face was acrobatic. Everett McKinley Dirksen, said his Illinois colleague Paul Douglas, "is a man of no principles." Dirksen preferred to call it "flexibility," and that kindlier word, which suggests growth rather than knavery, often proved accurate enough to describe his shifts in policy. During his 35 years in the House and Senate, Dirksen was isolationist, internationalist, champion of Joe McCarthy, internationalist again, antiwar critic (Korea), apologist for war (Viet Nam), Goldwaterite, and finally, an improbable shepherd...
...they have been dismissed from the game. "I know of no psychotic misconduct," Goffman has written, "that cannot be matched precisely in everyday life by the conduct of persons who are not psychologically ill nor considered to be so." Life in mental hospitals-"storage dumps" is one of his kindlier descriptions-also has its rituals. The patient who throws feces at an attendant, Goffman argues, is using a ceremonial idiom "that is as exquisite in its way as a bow from the waist. Whether he knows it or not, the patient speaks the same ritual language as his captors...
...other extreme are a few parents who introduce their children to pot in the home in the same way that countless parents start their children drinking. One San Francisco attorney turns on all three of his children, including his six-year-old. Still other parents respond by taking a kindlier view of early drinking, in hopes that their children will find liquor an acceptable alternative to pot. That ploy often fails, mainly because so many youths are convinced that marijuana is less harmful than "juice...