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...given him a positive identity--so that he becomes a maniac of the battlefield and brothel. He swaggers blustering until a soldier he bullied throws a hand grenade that wounds him fatally. What do you think of those people who say that soldiers are robots, animals, Argall asks. "They shit," Pavlo replies. Like him they will admit only one morality and dehumanize all who fail to fit. They are just as insensitive as he in their unwillingness to recognize the multiplicity of values and tolerate them...
...better cooperate with the U.S. Attorney... Once again the irony is nice, but this time Higgins spoils it by being too obvious. The prosecutor and the defense attorney are made to commiserate with one another about how this is the way things work: "Is there any end to this shit? Does anything every change in this racket?"--and so on, rubbing the reader's face into the theme of the novel...
...themselves often aren't quite sure why they are competing. Tim Neville managed to express the feeling I was getting from a number of swimmers best. "I came to Harvard to experience as many things as I could, but of course one has got to compromise and rule some shit out. Swimming gives me a sense of being--a constant concrete thing in the buzz around here--and a person needs that...
...waitresses who have existed without jobs since they began the strike, Cronin's must be the immediate goal, but the waitresses also look forward to a day when all the restaurants in the Square will be organized, and waitressing will become a legitimate and secure occupation, not just a shit...
...always used to go on about how people who were smoking grass because they didn't want to confront life and their responsibilities and their problems and so on. You know, the old "drugs for escape" thing that most adults believe. Shit, man, there wasn't any life to confront in that town...