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...undertakes the job of clearing his friend's name and finding his real murderer. Since most mysteries are set in a modern city like Los Angeles or in remote, isolated countryside. Graham Greene's brilliant choice of postwar Vienna is especially impressive--it manages to combine the two; the rootless, warrenlike atmosphere of a metropolls and the underlying terror of long reaches of barren scenery. The Third Man is a film in which the detective story remains entirely secondary. Holly Martins is just as much the naive American in need of protection at the end of the film...
Just about everyone is convinced the U.S. is heading toward hard times. And just about everyone is dismayed at the prospect. But there are a few exceptions. From down-and-outers, who have little more to lose, to rootless young people looking for new experiences, a tiny minority of Americans are at least halfway looking forward to a depression...
Spain also attracted less political types, the Robert Jordans of Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. This is not the aimless, rootless Jake in Pamplona, but a committed American from Idaho who leaves his post as a schoolteacher to help the Spanish people defend their liberty. Jordan--laconic, straightforward, and uncomplicated--joins a group of Spanish peasants working behind the Nationalist lines and, while working with them to blow up an enemy supply bridge, comes to feel less of an alien among these backward people. In the three tense days of preparation he senses his impending death, almost kills...
...these trends indicate that society in Boston--and throughout America--is becoming more rootless? Definitely not, answers Professor Stephan Thernstrom in his most recent book, The Other Bostonians. America has always been an extremely fluid society, even including its non-growing Eastern cities such as Boston. While 19th century transients may on the whole have been lower on the social ladder than their present-day counterparts, they were at least as numerous...
Certainly, if justice is not seen as prevailing by most Americans in the many trials still to emerge from the affair, a deepening cynicism and a rootless everybody-does-it syndrome of irresponsibility for individual acts may be Watergate's more lasting legacy. Whatever the outcome?most crucially including the fairness and thoroughness with which the President's political fate is resolved?millions of Americans will still consider the result wrong. Watergate thus is bound to leave a lingering bitterness among at least a minority of Americans...