Word: old-school
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...Deal brand of liberalism made him a spender. His personal background and early congressional experience−he was the chairman of a Special Un-American Activities Committee in the 1930s−made him a strident antiCommunist. Issues, however, concerned him less than the party line. As with other old-school legislators, his capital was discipline and personal obligation. Once while presiding over the House, he noticed a conservative Democrat lobbying several New Jersey members in the back of the chamber. McCormack left his place and marched on the group. "This is a McCormack bill," he told the Jerseyites...
Eastlake, unlike the old-school war novelists, never divorces the two. War is not the madness that contradicts life but only the extreme insanity that confirms life's other irrationalities. As he describes Clancy being tracked down, Eastlake's quest is to understand why war figures as a sort of final test. War, he concludes, is the confrontation to end all confrontations, not only between men but between a man and himself. It is mortality at its most unbearable-life with "death ticking off inside...
...medical generation gap was even more dramatically dominant in the generally engrossing premiere of NBC's The Bold Ones, which starred E. G. Marshall, David Hartman and John Saxon. In this case, the old-school practitioner, played flawlessly by Guest Star Pat Hingle, refused to declare a dying patient legally dead, thus exasperating an overeager young surgeon (Saxon) in search of a kidney to transplant. Hingle, it turned out, didn't have all those gray hairs for nothing; the dying patient miraculously improved. Bold Ones is a trilogy series, running in three-week cycles of lawyer stories, police...
...TOOK THE GOLD AWAY, by John Leggett. Told with marvelous class and considerable spit and polish, this old-school novel recounts the tale of two Yale classmates who alternately befriend and betray each other well into middle...
Domestic Explosion. All of this is literally the stuff of an old-school novel. Author Leggett (class of '42) remembers prewar Yale, from a Tap Day at Branford Court to any day in the heelers' room of the Oldest College Daily. He tells it with marvelous class and considerable spit and polish. He also manages to launch his dual heroes upon a Marquandish stream of life...