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...retired watchmaker from nearby Rayne ("Frog Capital of the World"), recalls an earlier time, when almost everybody in southwest Louisiana played an instrument. "My daddy could play harmonica, crow like a rooster and bark like a dog all at the same time." He shakes his head sadly. "That trait is gone today -- nobody practices that anymore...
Zealotry of either kind -- the puritan's need to regiment others or the victim's passion for blaming everyone except himself -- tends to produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims: they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer, defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of betterment...
...sandy-haired Dahmer, who was recently fired from his job at a Milwaukee chocolate factory, immediately confessed to 11 murders. Police believe he may have actually committed as many as 17 during the past 10 years. Most of the apartment victims were black males, and some were homosexuals. One trait Dahmer seems to share with the fictional Lecter is an apparent penchant for cannibalism: he told police he had saved a human heart "to eat later...
...best about TIME: his integrity and respect for the English language are enviable, as is his erudition. Ed was a writer in the Nation section in 1961 when he was called on to produce the Man of the Year cover story on John F. Kennedy. Versatility being another Jamieson trait, the next year he wrote an equally fine Man of the Year story on Pope John XXIII...
...Loyalty is a very important trait, one of those principles that should adhere to your core. But how far does loyalty go? Are you loyal to the point of supporting your superior in an illegality...