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MORE DISTURBING than the reckless pursuit of "success" recommended is the book's paranoia and condescending tones. Consistently exploiting guts puts you a on a rather common level of academic non-achievement. Authors Crafts and Hauther ("one a lawyer one an M.B.A.") would lower the lowest common denominator: The easy way out becomes an honorable way of life. To the all-important outside world--monolithically labelled "THEM" throughout--"a 3.5 is a 3.5; no one has to know that you got it with History of Photography or Italian Renaissance Painting. "Trust no one, they add, and cut as many corners...
...nosing through Noirland on the track of a sharpie named Steve Martin. Seems he's been breaking and entering the great movie genres of the past. Martin started off cleverly enough. Who cared that with The Jerk he was stealing from Jerry Lewis? But then, made reckless by success, the guy ransacked the old Busby Berkeley musicals and called the forgery Pennies from Heaven. Now he's pulled off his most daring heist. He's stolen from the tough-guy movies of the '40s, intercutting scenes of himself as a private eye with scenes from some...
...South Atlantic--a menacing 1800 inhabitants of a string of islands not worth the attention of even most trivia buffs--presents a dangerous threat to Argentina' influence in the Southern Hemisphere, a perfect opportunity for muscle flexing. Pretending to be victims of imperialism, the Argentine government ordered a reckless violation of international law, insulting Britain and all her allies. Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez managed somehow to keep a straight face when he carefully explained that his country's claims to the islands are rooted in 150-year-old territorial rights. The military junta professes to believe that Argentina...
...more casualties. In an attack the quality of the troops is the critical factor. Poorly trained, poorly led troops often do not . . . attack against any opposition, and when they do, they take heavy casualties. Some things never change and this is one of them. Reckless bravery does not help much, as it just gets more attackers killed
...senior year of the class of 1823 brought to a climax their animosity, their pranks and their reckless insubordination. The "Blacks" continued to inform on these antics, and the rest of the class harrassed and vexed this moralistic minority. On March 10, 1823, "A large shower bath belonging to Dorr [a "Black"] was taken from the fourth story of Stoughton, and having been filled with wood, etc. was burnt at midnight in the middle of the College Yard in commemoration of the second anniversary of the Blacklist...