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...traditions are equally important. Changes in customs and manners are most visible and affect people most immediately. But the U.S. will undoubtedly survive the frug and the cutout dress as it did the disappearance of the napkin ring and the morning coat. Far more significant is the break with intellectual and moral tradition, the questioning not of a particular authority but of the concept of authority itself. A nation needs a sense of history as much as it needs a sense of the future; it needs tradition not as a soporific, but as a means of measuring itself. Anthropologist Loren...
...guest of honor at last week's luncheon meeting of the Cleveland Touchdown Club seemed the soul of mild-mannered urbanity. He broke his rolls before he buttered them. He politely said nothing about the veal cutlet. He refolded his napkin neatly when he was through. He wore a charcoal herringbone suit, and he buttoned his vest all the way-so only his tailor knew for sure about those 17-inch biceps, that 46-inch chest and that 32-inch waist. But the banquet toastmaster was not fooled for a second. "Gentlemen," he firmly announced, "I give you Superman...
Leinlein's terrible and innocent eyes each episode is murderously dissected. Papa eats like a pig while Mama throws up into her napkin with revulsion. Grandmama is a steely old Nazi who relives the past by driving more nails into the crucifix above her bed. Since no one in the family will recognize Leinlein's lameness, every outing is a walk to Calvary at the end of which the child's feet are cut and bleeding; his elders' reaction is to abuse him for his weakness. Detail upon horrifying detail is piled with detachment and cold...
...doughnut. The man behind the counter waited. When he put a tray in front of them one of the students, smoking a pipe, exclaimed it was dirty. The tray was a normal Bic tray with the usual coffee stains. The man wiped the tray with a paper napkin. The pipe smoker loudly protested that wiping a tray did not make it clean. The man removed the tray and put another one in front of the students. The students claimed that that tray was dirty also. Then the man told them that if they didn't like it there they could...
...bite down," she orders. Then the nurses clamber up an escarpment and discover Sellers and Prentiss attempting a rendezvous on the rocks. From then on they bug Sellers, spoiling assignations and complicating the plot. They even scavenge his discarded cigarette butts and wrap them tenderly in a paper napkin. "No filter," notes Tippy. "He's not scared," observes Merrie...