Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chuckling as the lights came up in his home screening room, Dewitt felt satisfied that at last his son had learned his lesson about right and wrong--and also about film comedy. But would he appear too lenient in the child's eyes if he let him off the hook now? Dewitt wasn't sure, but he knew one thing: he sure was in the mood for another movie...
...determined jaw. In the 1940s, she could have been one of the European film beauties who used only one name, like Valli and Annabella. In the '80s, her diary could yet make her a "hot property." Perhaps even now, Meryl Streep's telephone is ringing off the hook...
...would be easy to stigmatize Hook as a collector of grievances and negatives. In fact, an almost heroic optimism invigorates his work. Twice in old age, he notes, his heart has stopped, and once he asked to be taken off life-support systems, only to be refused. Yet he feels that "the test of whether a human being has enjoyed a happy life is whether, if it were possible, he or she would accept another round of it. By this test I have had a happy life...
...20th book belies that claim: those who are indifferent to vital issues "owe the intellectual and cultural freedoms in which they luxuriate to the commitment and sacrifices of others." Even his extensive list of opponents would have to concede that the spirit of those "others" is crystallized in Sidney Hook's long, retributive and triumphantly out-of-step career...
Walker Percy' s Thanatos Syndrome pits behavioral engineering against humanity. -- Sidney Hook is triumphantly Out of Step...