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...plight is obfuscated by Coleman's personal search--for the lost muscles in his back, for the simple and direct language he knows he will find in the ditch. So he settles into comfortable generalizations, of the meaningless sophistication of white-collar workers who perform interesting tasks and the rude but honest manners of blue-collar workers who execute monotonous manual labor. Coleman chants vacuously at the conclusion that he set out to learn something but instead found a lost part of himself...
...wrinkle in the old tale of a cold sophisticate getting burned by the rube. Yankee versions customarily make the rube goodhearted. But Adams and Giles both represent a failure of what Americans like to think of as an egalitarian society. Adams' understated, institutionalized arrogance and Giles' blustering, rude arrogance are not different in substance. Only in Style. −R.Z. Sheppard
Except as "a total declaration of interdependence" or a means of having children, Morris has always regarded sex as the least part of love. The present interchangeability of the rude mechanical word "sex" with the empyrean word "love," seems to him grisly and baneful. In a very English romantic way, though, James had obviously been a great lover-of cities and landscapes, of music and pictures, of friends and children. The book eloquently makes clear that the one person in the world whom Morris has most loved, admired and respected is Elizabeth, and that what Morris is most proud...
...then, can smokers unabashedly pollute the air? Why do non-smokers let them do it (particularly those 34 million in the U.S. that the American Medical Association estimates are sensitive to cigarette smoke)? Somehow, our sense of protocol and courtesy has been turned inside out. It is not considered rude to smoke in public; it is considered rude to ask someone not to smoke, or to answer "Yes" when asked, "Does anybody mind if I smoke?" Despite federal regulations requiring separate smoking and nonsmoking sections on trains and airplanes, it is considered rude to ask a passenger...
Life with Stevie may be relatively clean, but in every other way it is a circus of indecision, chaotic scheduling and the totally unexpected. It is not that he is a prima donna or purposely rude, says a friend, but "he just doesn't have days or nights, and he's seldom thinking more than ten minutes ahead." Scheduled to meet a photographer, he may march off to the recording studio or back to his apartment on Manhattan's East Side to whisper musical phrases into his "notebook," a portable cassette recorder...