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...sense of responsibility what once it tried to do out of a sense of ambition is gallant as well as quaint. Can post-Viet Nam America manage what he asks, even if it is willing? Corson is really certain of only one thing: if Americans survive by meaner stratagems, their lives will not be worth living...
Chandler's Marlowe was a smart man and a smoothie, with brains and a sense of honor; he chose to walk alone down the meaner streets of California in the 40 s and 50's because at heart he was a cop--he only quit the force because he couldn't stand its stupidity and corruption. He certainly didn't leave to get more money; his lack of materialism and his sense of morality are precisely what distinguished him from his fellow Californians. Marlowe's clients--who, in fact, he largely disliked--were the rich and indolent descendants of early...
...domestic matters, Nixon's leadership has combined a shrewd understanding of what most of the country wanted-or feared-with constant reminders of the old verities and only occasional flashes of innovation-so far. Even in his reform proposals, Nixon sometimes comes across only as a leaner, meaner liberal. The shortcoming is not his alone. American conservatism has long been inconstant, uncertain and divided in its aims, trying to combine belief in authority with a belief in individualism and little government. A rich tradition of conservative thought on the European model has never taken root in America; perhaps Americans...
...five years, it is Oklahoma that does the whupping. By day's end Texas has lost its first-and second-string quarterbacks, a linebacker, a tight end, the game (by a score of 48-27) and considerable face. One disconsolate Longhorn fan moans: "Them Oklahoma boys was meaner'n seven hunnerd elves...
...view of Caiaphas and other Jewish high priests, who regard Jesus partly as a heretic but mainly as a rabble-rouser who threatens to bring down the full weight of Rome upon occupied Palestine. Jewish groups who protest that Superstar is anti-Jewish because it makes the high priests meaner and more bloody-minded than they are in the Gospels may have a point. But they have missed the contemporary echoes that Superstar trades on with audiences likely to know little of the Bible and less of history. The high priests are not so much Jews as caricatures...