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...that others ignore. Now, however, I face a real problem: I can't find any of those factors. Each morning the paper brings such encouraging news about inflation or crime or unemployment that I almost expect to see the headline GOOD PEOPLE REWARDED; EVIL ONES TO SUFFER. The worry monger in me finds no satisfaction in the international pages either. The democracy kudzu spreads relentlessly, and while there are troubles, none compares with the risk of imminent global incineration. Then: the Cuban missile crisis. Now: the Caribbean summit. After so carefully developing the habit of pessimism, is it any wonder...
...graduated two years after Pat Buchanan, and three years ahead of William Bennett, the entrepreneurial virtue-monger of the '90s. We are all Gonzaga boys. I see any one of us, long ago, mounting the stage in the dusky Gonzaga auditorium and declaiming "A Message to Garcia," while black-cassocked Jesuits perch along the sidewalls, alert and ominous as crows...
British filmmakers are ever mindful of the glory days, nearly a half-century ago, when the Ealing Studios produced a smart series of social comedies. Two of Grant's new films aim for that mixture of nostalgia and satire. The Englishman ... is writer-director Christopher Monger's fable about a Welsh village whose denizens are determined that their local hill (elevation 300 m) be declared a mountain (elevation at least 305 m). Grant, as the English surveyor who is finally seduced by their cause, struts and tut-tuts through his part with authority, but all his patented exertions...
...everyone's aware, such a critique could only be the product of a racist hate-monger. And, to confuse the matter, admissions officers have always been extremely secretive about their actual methods of choosing candidates based (at least partially) on race...
...these men present very frightening prospects and precedents. It seems incredible that the voters in Louisiana rejected Duke for governor. After all, he was just a hate-monger, not really responsible for the deaths of hundreds. Who knows what convinced him to run in the first place, anyway...