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What comes across with striking clarity in this biography are two things: Roosevelt’s vigor and his endless supply of moral confidence. As a politician and as a private person, the man was nervy. Morris’ title refers to a comment from Henry James that fairly summed up his autocratic style of leadership as he tore through opposition—foreign and domestic—to achieve what he considered the only moral outcomes. Opposition, such as he saw at Harvard, was lazy and callow: “Those who remain on the sidelines...
Morris also has in Roosevelt, as he did not have in Reagan, a first-rate central character, whose style and substance foreshadowed the presidencies that would follow. His athletic vigor prefigured John F. Kennedy's. If anything, Roosevelt's White House jujitsu lessons make J.F.K.'s touch football look borderline effete. ("Muscular Christianity without the Christianity" is how somebody once described Teddy's manner.) His use of federal power against the massive industrial monopolies of his day opened the way to the decisive expansion of Washington under his younger relative, F.D.R. Though he came from old money, his inexhaustible democratic...
...tracks, “So Much Beauty in Dirt,” “Here It Comes” and “I Came As a Rat (Long Walk Off a Short Dock)” are throwbacks to classic Modest Mouse style with a combination of vigor and witty lyrics (“The rich get money but never what they want”). It’s clear by the end, however, that there wasn’t enough quality material to cash in on another full-length album. Modest Mouse fans: you may be disappointed...
...adapted from the book by Andrew Klavan, isn’t frequently a lot of fun. Though it is riddled with laughable plot contrivances and unnecessary characters who impede the flow of the story, this movie isn’t concerned with making sense, and its pace and vigor almost divert your attention from such mean-spirited questions...
...workers pick through the very real pieces of the symbols of U.S. economic and military vigor, we who are shielded by so many television and computer screens, and who wonder what the reality of such work is, might ask ourselves and each other if strength is susceptible to different renditions, less grandiose, more fragile, and, dare I say it, all too human. It is time to comfort those in pain, to reflect, and perhaps, if we must rebuild, to do so differently. It is not, however, the time for yet more grand machinations of death and destruction, more people...