With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002Simon and Schuster, 2 sept. 2003 - 384 pages The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Newsweek columnist takes on the presidents Bush, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, Y2K, 9/11, trickle-down economics, Brooks Brothers suits, the essence of golf, and of course, those damn Yankees. "It has taken me sixty years to identify the three keys to a happy life," writes George Will. "A flourishing family, hearty friends, and a strong bullpen." The title of this book -- Will's seventh collection of newspaper and magazine pieces, book reviews, speeches, and occasional writings -- is taken from the W. H. Auden poem "The Horatians," which dictates that we look at this world with a happy eye but from a sober perspective. And so it is with a happy eye indeed that Will shares his vision of America just before and after the birth of the twenty-first century. Featuring five years' worth of observations on politics, current affairs, and international relations, With a Happy Eye But...is a brilliantly diverse collection from America's most widely known commentator at his sober, happy, and controversial best. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
Marines Rough and Polished | 15 |
The Anthropology of Latte Towns | 28 |
Making Uniforms into Billboards | 42 |
Year of Living Dangerously | 56 |
War Beyond the World of Westphalia | 69 |
New Consequences for Old Ideas | 83 |
The European Unions Lawlessness | 96 |
Walker Percy Richard Petty Whatever | 208 |
History and Contingency | 215 |
Neurologically Wired to Wall Street | 218 |
The Silence of the Law and the Silent Artillery of Time | 231 |
A FreeLove Nominating System | 244 |
Congresss Nuremberg Defense | 258 |
Al Sharptons Parricide | 271 |
A Speech Policemans Lot Is Not Easy | 285 |
July 10 1941 in Jedwabne | 110 |
Punishing States of Mind | 123 |
The Right to a Dead Baby | 138 |
Fetuses and Carolinians | 144 |
Coping with theWell Some of the Ten Commandments | 150 |
School Choice and the Hecklers Veto | 156 |
Worrying Rationally | 163 |
Boys Will Be Boys So Drug Them | 170 |
The Death of School Discipline | 176 |
Multiplying Knowledge at Monterey Bay | 182 |
Commencement Address at Lafayette College | 194 |
Recognition in San Francisco | 202 |
The Speech Police Find Offending Passages | 287 |
Virtue at Last In Ten Months | 294 |
The Forfeiture of Princess Noor | 301 |
Hitler and Epistemological Optimism | 308 |
S Lewiss Cult of the Ordinary | 314 |
Gentlemen in Spikes | 321 |
John Adams Popular at Last | 328 |
Robert Kennedy Conservative? | 334 |
Holden Caulfield Turns Fifty | 341 |
Meg Greenfields Potent Measuredness | 347 |
Wills Angle of Repose | 353 |
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