 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 1975 - 472 strani
...preserve law and order he must step outside the constitutional limits. The justification for his rejeclon of legally constituted process is the individual's...is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afrnid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. He... | |
 | John G. Cawelti - 1976 - 344 strani
...conception of the hard-boiled detective more eloquently than Raymond Chandler, one of his major creators: Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself...hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man The Hard-Boiled Detective Story 151 and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather... | |
 | John G. Cawelti - 1976 - 344 strani
...valueless universe, but a lone ranger who somehow redeems the world by his bravery and decency: But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.31 At the same time, Chandler was enough of a realist to want his hero to be a plausible contemporary... | |
 | Peter Wolfe - 1985 - 262 strani
...of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony .... But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself...tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story can be such a man. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and... | |
 | Robert Allen Baker, Michael T. Nietzel - 1985 - 404 strani
..."the mean streets" of such urban centers as New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. (" . . . But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean — who is neither tarnished nor afraid. . .") Many of these novels and stories have been very good; many more have been very bad or (cardinal... | |
 | David Luban - 1988 - 484 strani
...devoted to penny-ante criminal defense, zealous, conscientious, and principled advocates can be found. "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid."22 It happens sometimes. Let us turn, then, to the law in books — the rights of the accused.... | |
 | Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer - 1992 - 284 strani
...tragedy . . . and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid ... He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honour, by instinct, by inevitability, without... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 strani
...narrator (Ferdinand Bardarnu), in journey ю (he End of ihe Night, (1932; lr. 1934; ed. 1966. p. 69). 1 1 , ... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 228 strani
...to link him somewhat oddly with Raymond Chandler's hero, Philip Marlowe, citing his famous comment, 'down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid',47 and diminishing the Prince into a tough but humane private eye. Yet this is perhaps the... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Ronald J. Ambrosetti - 1993 - 280 strani
...and, through that Americanness universal, as an extended quote from his statement demonstrates: . . .Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything.... | |
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But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. 
