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...fact that the Egyptians were stalling Moscow on concluding a long-sought treaty of friendship designed to bind Cairo firmly into an alliance. A friend told me, "Opinions are beginning to solidify in the leadership that we have to be rid of (Egyptian President Anwar) Sadat. Sadat is a scoundrel. The only problem is that we don't have a really strong figure to take over from him. But there are some possibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...Patriotism," said Dr. Johnson just as the American Revolution was beginning, "is the last refuge of a scoundrel." At about the same time, Dr. Pangloss was giving optimism a bad name too. "In this best of all possible worlds," said the Voltaire character, "all is for the best." But those impulses, patriotism and optimism, are prominent and connected in the American psyche. The idea of manifest destiny carried both to a bellicose extreme; Franklin Roosevelt, when he insisted that the nation had nothing to fear but fear itself, expressed the linkage beautifully. Patriotic trappings took on particular importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Upbeat Mood | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

Prosecutors insist that in the unraveling of high-level criminal conspiracies, it usually takes a scoundrel to catch one. Says H. Richard Uviller, a criminal-law professor at Columbia University and former Manhattan prosecutor: "You'd love to have witnesses who are all picked for their virtue and sterling characters, but it doesn't always happen that way. And so you take them where you find them." Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry made the same point to the De Lorean jury in the words of an old lawyers' axiom: "For a plot hatched in hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Are Bad Guys Good Witnesses? | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -Samuel Johnson Maybe the entire country is awash with scoundrels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One Last U.S. Victory Lap | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...sure sense of structure and an ear for dialogue. But his play is irreparably flawed where it veers away from the original. In James' story the old woman never mentions any letters and finds out only at the end what her boarder is after. "Ah, you publishing scoundrel!" she hisses. In Gurney's play, the woman demands that the young man write her biography and teases him with Fitzgerald's lost chapter. Her anger when he tries to sneak away with it makes no sense. Her character is ultimately unbelievable, as is that of the instructor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Genius, Menace and Chicanery | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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