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With her roommate, Paula Hamilton-Marshall, and their housekeeper, dark-haired Olive Brooker, Defendant Keeler had pleaded guilty to framing Jamaican Jazz Singer Aloysius ("Lucky") Gordon, a jilted lover of Christine's; he was first convicted, on her own sober testimony, of beating her and later released on the basis of her drunken tape-recorded confession that she had lied. Thus, as she was led from the half-empty courtroom with tears starting from her eyes, ended what Defense Counsel Hutchin son probably prematurely termed "the last chapter in this long saga that has been called the Keeler affair...
...mourn the terrible event," cried Morton, "but let us not mourn for the American soul-for that soul is stout and lighted by truth and faith. Let the blame be on him who actually committed the crime . . . What happened was not America's fault. Only the sober realization of that can make our mourning meaningful and not torture it with a guilt that is undeserved and unworthy of the cause in which our Presidents live and for which sometimes they tragically...
...until well past the middle of the book, the party is dreadfully sober, bull in the kitchen and all. The funny people stand around with glasses in their hands, and the funny events occur, but the reader never feels the giddiness that good farce and a certain kind of intoxication can produce: the sensation of having temporarily mislaid the horizon and of knowing you can locate it again with no trouble if only that calf will stop licking your face...
...interested in the larger questions of the day in this country." Chatham's President Eddy frets that "youth is beginning to retreat behind excellence" to what he calls "the permanent alibi of scholarship." Critics also sourly complain that today's collegians are "totally defeatist" and "so damn sober." "There's a material sophistication that is not matched by a spiritual one," says one California professor, adding, "They all seem to have read a great deal-hastily...
...does not merely reduce or remove the negative effects of the outside world, but that it has great positive effects of its own. People get a sense of well-being or happiness when they are "high" that does not have to be seen in contrast to their more depressed sober moments...