Word: soullessness
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...stomach churning Permance Friday considerably improves the schedule, with Peter Yale's entertaining Bullitt, and Arthur Penn's archetypal American love story. Bonnir and Clyde Sunday and Monday make for a return to drek, as the Perrys's strident Diars of a Mad Housewife plays with polarishes slick and soulless Rosemary's Baby Call...
Opponents range from right-wing Tories and M.P.s with farming and fishing constituencies to left-wingers who see the Market as just that-a soulless bazaar dedicated only to profits and consumption. The most vocal opponent of all is Enoch Powell, the leading Tory right-winger, who has been traveling throughout the Six to explain why a majority of Britons feel "a repugnance" toward joining the EEC. Says Powell: "The principal events which have placed their stamp upon our consciousness of who we are were the very ones in which we have been alone, confronting a Europe that was lost...
Listen. There is no compromise with a machine. You cannot talk Peace and Love to a human or a robot whose every federal bureaucratic impulse is soulless, heartless, humorless, lifeless, loveless...
Contemplating the script and his relationship to Eric and Erika gives Vidal yet another opportunity to do his Epicurus act: pleasure seen as the beginning and end of the good life, death seen as nothing more than the beginning of a blessed reduction into soulless, primordial atoms. He observes that power is customarily pursued for its own sake and dismisses idealism from political behavior. Wearily he views America as a violent, uncivilized land full of literal-minded people with no sense of paradox. Its writers are inferior to those of Europe, ditto its food, and its attitude toward taboos...
...first, Nixon seemed to play into the bogeyman role. The scenario was all too clear: there was the smiling Nixon at the Republican convention, Strom Thurmond on one side and Spiro Agnew on the other. There was the soulless Nixon, emerging with "official stands" on things like war and racism after consulting the public opinion polls. There was the unified-party Nixon, steam-rolling John Lindsay, Edward Brooke, Ronald Reagen together into one big, happy, featureless group of supporters. And worst of all, there was the Machiavellian Nixon, keenly aware that even though his moves alienated the blacks...