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...President is not a criminal, but your Dean has admitted wrongdoing. My President is not unethical. Would you and your colleagues destroy our country in order to ruin...
Beyond the archdemonic Hitlers, Updike points out, are the evils that persist in Everyman: "Is not destructiveness within us as a positive lust, an active hatred? Who does not exult in fires, collapses, the ruin and death of friends? What man can exempt from his purest sexual passion and most chivalrous love, the itch to defile...
Good fortune is no escape, Updike warns. "Indeed, the more fortunate our condition, the stronger the lure of negation, of perversity, of refusal . . . Thus the devil thrives in proportion, is always ready to enrich the rich man with ruin, the wise man with folly, the beautiful woman with degradation, the kind, average man with debauches of savagery. The world always topples...
...Lloyd and a wartime Viennese friend, Harry Fischer, began their partnership as booksellers and art dealers in London. Lloyd astutely realized that, with postwar taxation and the wartime ruin of landed estates, the great English collectors of the prewar years would now become sellers. He gained access to them and their collections through David Somerset, heir presumptive to the Duke of Beaufort. Over the past two decades, Somerset-who hobnobs with such figures as David Rockefeller and Aristotle Onassis-has been invaluable to Lloyd, steering collections and clients toward him and, best of all, introducing him to the Italian auto...
...among the USU ranks. And on the field the situation gets worse and worse. Now that his pocket has broken down, Whittier is being harried more intensely than ever. And he is scrambling for his life. A setback like this could not only scuttle the season, but it could ruin his career as well. With each new play, the ends and tackles close in a little more on the U.S. Quarterback. And it seems only a matter of time before he will be sacked behind his own line...