Yes, it's a free country, and Clifford Odets had a perfect right to sell himself to the highest bidder, just as we in turn have a right to roll our eyes when Charlie throws himself a pity party onstage.

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Pity our children if our policymakers continue to take his views seriously.

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We go to his films to gasp, not to yearn or pity or weep, except over the paucity of our own automobiles.

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But the point I'm trying to make about Bukavu is that this isn't some wretched, obscure town which deserves our fleeting pity.

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