Broken Glass [antikvár]

Chapter 1 Most of us have our cancers. Our personal, pet cancers. Nick's father, for instance - his personal cancers are cynicism and disrespect for the establishment. He blames David Frost and Mandy Rice-Davies. Seriously. David Frost for 1963's That Was The Week That Was, which in his view destroyed for ever the imcomplicated fifties innocence of the British public; and Mandy Rice-Davies for her 'Well, he would, wouldn't he?' of the same year, when Profumo declared himself guiltless of impropriety to his Honourable Friends. The cancer of cynicism and loss of innocence spawned at that time has since (Nick's father would say) spread unchecked, eating away at everything that is, or should be, decent and deserving of respect in society: the judiciary, the government, the royal family, even the professional classes. It's no good suggesting to him that these institutions have been revealed, through countless scandals or exposés, as imworthy of respect;