Research Catalog

Title

The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts / George F. Will.

Author

Will, George F.

Publication

New York : Harper & Row, ©1978.

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Details

Description

xvii, 333 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Columns originally published in Newsweek and the Washington Post which deal with human nature and contemporary American life and politics.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Political culture > United States
• Manners and customs
• Political culture
• United States > Social life and customs > 20th century
• United States

Note

• "Originally published in Newsweek and the Washington post."
• Includes index.

Contents

People. Cool-hand Jerry Brown -- Woody Hayes: Kulturkamphf in Columbus -- Lord Shaftesbury's conservatism -- Hugh Hefner's faithfulness -- Calvin Coolidge: pickles and ice cream -- Alf Landon's little house on the prairie -- Hitler: radically free -- Simone Weil: the politics of self-absorption -- Anne Frank: the truimph of faith over experience -- Jean-Paul Sarte discovers democracy -- Gus Hall's vigorous obedience -- Shirley MacLaine: hyperventilating in China -- Tania becomes conscious -- Patty Hearst comes home -- P.G. Wodehouse: souffle chef -- Winston Churchill: in the region of mass effects -- Charles Lindbergh, craftsman -- Huey Long: "I bet Earl but him, didn't he?" -- Russell Long: the sovereignty of chromosomes -- Franco: last from the rock pool -- Franco: the art of ingratitude -- Hubert Humphrey: the art of exhaustion -- Gordon Allott: not a malleable man -- Nixon: the way he was -- Alexander Bickel, public philosopher -- Issues. How far out of the closet? -- In cold blood -- Discretionary killing -- Freedom and the busing quagmire -- Common sense on race -- Marijuana and moral taxidermy -- God went too far -- Risk-taking on the road -- Ennui, decadence and the Times -- The desensitization of America -- Pornographic minds -- The not-so-mighty tube -- Prisoners of TV -- Government by adding machine -- The hot seat: from expectations to entitlements -- Society as a field of forces -- The dispersal of cities -- The hell of affluence -- Life at the waterline -- Inoculation by history -- A little platoon of moral pioneers -- Manners. An age beyond wonder -- The astrological impulse -- Personality against character -- Printed noise -- The ploy of sex -- Is that a red dog in the seam? -- Frozen music in New Orleans -- On a hill above Weimar -- Losing well is the best revenge -- Zarathustra at forty: Elvis -- Sensory Blitzkrieg -- Billy Jack and other melancholy political fables -- D is for dodo -- "Branches, " I said, "do not grow on trees" -- Marvelous marin -- Privacy in the republic of appetites -- Depressing candor -- Thunderblender! -- Run over by a musical comedy -- Perils of parenting -- "Angels and other things that aren't true" -- On he own in the city -- Campaigning. Contemporary American fiction -- Democracy as Vaudeville -- An anointing -- Ford's weakness -- Exorcising the "God issue" -- Sauerkraut ice cream -- A runner that renown outran -- Unanimity without enthusiasm -- Odd man in -- "Disposable income!" -- Fishers of men -- Missionary work -- The sneeze -- Hitting Bottom -- The disease of politics -- Sowing in the autumn -- To the survivor -- Governing. Doctrine of Disappointment -- Authoritarian short-cuts and the litigation tactic -- A man of the people -- Government by "the people" -- Senator Pell makes his mark -- Looting -- Intensity and the filibuster -- Treason in the woodwinds -- Committing acts of government -- Agnew takes a page from Wilde -- Government by western union -- Richard Nixon: too many evenings -- Deus es! Deus es! -- An appropriations Question -- "Technically sweet" -- Governing appetite -- Jiggling the Mobile, gently -- Lance, Carter, Babbitt and Gantry -- Civic liturgies -- "How free she runs" This, too shall pass away -- Foreigners. The English malady -- British squabbling -- A touch of class -- The chunnel -- North sea story -- Highland spirits -- Scotland: a tartan Norway? -- Drunk on history -- Ulster's dark and bloody ground -- The state within the state -- Too few factions -- Zionism and legitimacy -- Israel: state of siege -- Israel and Munich -- A people in search of a state -- Italy's "ambivalent" communists -- Castro's revolution -- "American century" -- Famous victory -- Snubbing Solzhenitsyn -- Kissinger's Fatalism -- Kissinger: strategic pessimist, tactical optimist -- Kissinger's dubious monument: Detente -- Personal. Half promise, half threat -- Gorilla in the kitchen -- The Chicago Cubs, Overdue -- Cubs on the Banister of Eternity -- "Have you ever known a Yankee fan with real character?" -- Walking -- Living with a crick in the neck -- Frederick L. Will.

ISBN

• 006014663X
• 9780060146634

LCCN

77025956

OCLC

• ocm03517113
• 3517113
• SCSB-103397

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library