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hermetic stretches of row-house monotony

The maverick was most appealing, paradoxically, when he issued a hoary ode to noble traditions, to the faith of his fathers, to the Senate, to the way it used to be — as if it ever was what it used be.

He acquired the sobriquet “maverick” in the mid-’90s

the lugubrious interviewee America got to know from his films in the 1960s

notions of individual responsibility and private entrepreneurship that were subsequently sacralized by the Reagan-Thatcher revolution in the 1980s