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...asks big, brutal questions. What will we do for someone we love? What will we do for someone we want to love? When this person is a politician and has a shot at becoming the most powerful man on earth, good people can do pretty cruddy things--for the sake, they keep telling themselves, of a noble goal. Faust knew this. So, at every step of the long primary road, does Henry Burton...
Hall's second long-term lover, Una Troubridge, told her that she was the first fanatic she had ever met: "one who, if the need arose, would go to the pillory for the sake of her convictions." Troubridge was ominously prophetic: Hall was, publicly and privately, martyred for her cause. But she was prepared to put her private self on view, and, once it was all out in the open, refused ever to back down from her stance or to try to hide what she was. Cline, in placing Hall in her larger cultural and literary context, has also succeeded...
...talking about a basketball game, for goodness sake, not the Jeopardy College Championship. Besides, everyone knows that Stanford grade point averages are ridiculously inflated...
Beyond this, however, campus activists have their argument in a tangle. They call for activism for the sake of activism without taking the time to realize that for the time being, the world is free of cataclysm. Perhaps the best proof that there are no world-changing issues to fight for or against is that would-be activists spend their time attacking the apathetics and not acting...
...shoe commercial, with the line "I've got 10 fingers and no rings" almost takes pride in his lack of championships. That's pathetic--if he cared, he'd say no to some of the money and do what it takes to improve for the team's sake...