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"The spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into war."
Ahmed is in Shuweifat, a Palestinian stronghold (a neighborhood, really) east of the Beirut airport. Both the Israelis and the Phalangists are encamped near by, not 500 yds. away. It is close to noon. The streets are white, deserted. Overhead two jets, flying side by side, make a quotation mark...
That redolence pervades Cheever's writing, along with the poignant recognition that all the senses are doomed to transience. He won fame as a chronicler of mid-century manners, but his deeper subject was always the matter of life and death. - By Paul Gray
To this end, Grease 2 has assembled bloodless pastiches of 20-year-old pop music, reduced antique dance styles to their simplest components, ignored the authentic texture of language, manners and style except for their most obvious elements. The story is of the same cali ber: Michael, an English lad...
He was never much of a student and won few friends for his play ground manners. But a left book like Thompson's got respect especially since he had a big brother in a leather jacket to back it up.