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Re: RARA-AVIS: hb libertarian
>Is the hard-boiled american idealism of the 30's/40's, essentially the
>same as the 90's-libertarian-american? Does this similarity account for
>the renewed interest in the hb-genre?
To the first question: in its pessimism about the competence of
governmental institutions, the hard-boiled attitude of much 30s-40s
fiction does (vaguely) have something in common w/ what appears to be an
increasingly libertarian American electorate. Other than that, I fail to
see how the two have anything substantive in common -- other than the fact
that contemporary anti-government types seem to love their guns every
bit as much as the typical hardboiled dick.
M
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Michael D. Sharp "Lis, when you get a little older
msharp@umich.edu you'll learn that Friday's just an-
Department of English other day between NBC's Must-See
University of Michigan Thursday and CBS's Saturday-Night
Crap-o-rama." -- Bart Simpson
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, { brad brace } wrote:
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> Is the hard-boiled american idealism of the 30's/40's, essentially the
> same as the 90's-libertarian-american? Does this similarity account for
> the renewed interest in the hb-genre?
>
> On another tact, I'd be interested to hear hb-slang for 'artist.'
>
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