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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LATELY THE NEWSPAPERS have been full of reports of major-league screw-ups I'm not talking about baseball. I'm talking about that great tradition which F. Scott Fitzgerald crystallized in The Great Gatsby pushing things to the limit, taking enormous risks, and screwing...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: No Tragic Hero | 5/11/1984 | See Source »

...most notable recent screw-up was Rep Ed Markey's decision to quit the Massachusetts senate race. But it was a poor screw-up, tarnish on a shining tradition...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: No Tragic Hero | 5/11/1984 | See Source »

...call it dying in action Dying with your boots on. Or your gloves, depending on the profession. It's the sort of tradition that inspires cultural monoliths like the movies Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and, in a different sense, Easy Rider. In Butch Cassidy they really did screw up--Paul Newman and Robert Redford should have known not to rob that bank in the end. But they didn't really have a choice. The alternative was to loll around some more in that town in Bolivia and argue about who was sleeping with Katharine Ross. In the face...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: No Tragic Hero | 5/11/1984 | See Source »

...that wasn't always the case Ancient Greek tragedy portrayed the definitive screw-up. There's no way you can argue that Oedipus, the father of screwing up if you're a Freudian, was responsible for what happened to him. The oracle said he would sleep with his mother and kill his father, so he did what any sensible person would do. He left town. Then he pushed that limit, took those risks, to become king. And Fate tripped him up. Just like Newman and Redford, or those test pilots who crash in flames early on in The Right Staff...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: No Tragic Hero | 5/11/1984 | See Source »

...Take it easy, George. This is what President Reagan calls 'private sector initiative.' It's a laudable attempt by good natured businessmen to step in where the public sector would just screw things up. I mean, look at all the flak Medicare gets for transferring tax dollars to impoverished physicians. Don't you think doctors have problems covering payments on those beach houses, with the economy...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Go Right, Brother | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

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