Word: unromanticized
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If the U.S. Secret Service had been on duty in 1781 at Yorktown, Lord Cornwallis might have had a fighting chance against George Washington. Concerned in 1981 about security for Washington's 39th successor to the presidency, the prudent but unromantic federal agents forced the play-acting colonial troops...
Will people buy electric cars? They should, according to U.S. Department of Transportation statistics. Ninety percent of all car trips in America are for 20 miles or less, and 99% are for 100 miles or less. Thus, at least in theory, the electric car's short range should not...
The world jumped, in different directions. International financiers praised Volcker's move; after all, he announced the policy immediately after returning from an International Monetary Fund conference in Belgrade, where those same financiers had most likely given him a pep talk for such a program. Stock market investors ran scared...
DEATH REVEALED. James Gould Cozzens, 74. successful, cerebral American novelist whose Guard of Honor, the story of a young World War II general faced with a problem of racial discrimination, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949; of pneumonia; on Aug. 9, in Stuart, Fla. After his first novel, Confusion, was...
Therein, of course, lies the point. What Stone was saying in his novel was that a trashy culture, America in the '60s, produced precisely the trashy counterculture it deserved, and also the trashy, unromantic criminal life it might have expected. Even if one could not entirely accept his relentlessly...