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...them with a flash of white rump. In an engagingly informal text, Porter is most fascinating describing the lengths to which a bird photographer will go to get results. Once, to reach a kinglet's nest, he simply sawed off a tree at its base, keeping it upright, and lowered it 40 feet. The kinglet did not seem to mind...
BECAUSE THEY KEPT the bloodshed far from their own front door, Bundy and his colleagues were able to remain fine citizens, good husbands and fathers, upright and moral men. They retained their integrity by limiting their range of experience. The same phenomenon occurred in World War II. The Nazis gassed and started the Jews and the Slavs (among others); the Allies bombed the civilians of Dresden and Hiroshima (among others). Nobody felt any guilt The criminals never saw their victims...
...from the wheat scandal and the Watergate incident just as the Democratic regulars of Texas suffered from a stock scandal last spring. But "The President's" transgressions still have less of an impact than did the stark revelations of widespread corruption throughout the state government. Nixon has maintained an upright posture with the residents of the suburbs, while striking rich with the oil millionaires downtown. His recent negotiations with Hanoi, though they may turn out to be rather morbid theatrics, may have convinced many of the borderline moderates...
...gets as far as St. Joseph before throwing in with a band of rapscallions on their way West. Drew takes overbearing pride in being an upright Methodist. He struggles to stay on the straight and narrow as his cronies teach him to lie, to steal, to live by his wits and, those failing, his gun. His principles are most frequently mocked and compromised by the gang leader (Jeff Bridges), with whom he strikes up the kind of mutually antagonistic friendship often found in such films of Howard Hawks as Rio Bravo and Red River. Each member of the gang...
Ernst Kitzinger, Porter University Professor and a close friend and colleagues of Rowland, yesterday called him "a fundamentally upright and decent person with an entertaining deadpan sense of humour." He added that Rowland was "a devoted teacher," who, because of his diverse areas of expertise, is "totally irreplaceable to the department...