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...editorial bravado: "I like to think of Saturday Review as an antidote to the sleaziness that is invading our national culture, the cult of incoherence, the competition to pulverize language and glamorize brutality." He paused. "You bet I am tempted to return. But if I am wise, I will suppress the temptation...
...might call convictions) even when their results are disastrous. Ful bright but that the polls show "disapproval of the policies of this President but still show great approval of him personally. It means he has a fine personality, but ... it has nothing to do with the formulation of wise policy...
...device of shamming insanity has a long tradition going back at least as far as Oceanus' advice to Aeschylus' Prometheus: "To simulate madness is the secret of the wise," Walken's "antic disposition" is correctly a disguise. He appears barefoot, wearing a muddied monk's gown with cowl. He takes things pretty fat, however, In the Nunnery Scene, where he not only berates Ophelia but even knocks her down and slaps her. Later he shinnies up a pole to give a speech...
Amending the U.S. Constitution usually takes years. It is rarely done. As Chief Justice John Marshall said, the Constitution should be "a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means." When one is working in marble, it is not wise to doodle, or use the chisel impulsively. But precisely because the chances of succeeding with an amendment are remote, there has always been something satisfyingly theatrical and essentially safe about proposing amendments to enshrine various panaceas, transcendent gripes, noble urges and crackpot illuminations. The process is a little like the custom of nominating obscure favorite sons at political conventions, not because...
...observed and mimicked. Other television children were passive; problems happened to them. Beaver actively courted trouble. He brought home live snakes, fell into a steaming billboard soup bowl, and cut his own hair so that he resembled a precursor of punkdom. Beaver was not streetwise, he was backyard-wise. He was good, but never goody-goody. In his mind, he was guilty until proved innocent...