" In another rhetorical flourish, Gorsuch said the court had reduced Auer "to the role of a tin god, officious, but ultimately powerless.
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" He noted if the opinion ended up reducing the doctrine "to the role of a tin god -- officious, but ultimately powerless—then a future Court should candidly admit as much and stop requiring litigants and lower courts to pay token homage to it.
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All of his books are now out of print, and it is increasingly difficult to find on the shelves of public libraries such masterpieces as Little Tin God, that perceptive study of a small man turning to Nazism. Tilsley was able to draw on a wide variety of experience to enable him to catch ‘the everyday life of ordinary men and women’.
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These were one by two meter metal plates which she decorated with scrap and finds. Some of these metal collages (Assemblage) she mounted temporarily on the exterior facade of her own house to expose them to weather and so natural corrosion. The applied materials she used to call "way too beautiful scrap". In this category also her idols are noteworthy, especially the Götzin mit Klingelbusen ( female tin god with ringing breasts), a metallically fixated female breast picture the nipples of which were made from pushable metal bell buttons.
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The book is slightly marred by the unlikeliness of an ending in which a daughter of his unfaithful wife (whose death he had deliberately hastened) finally salvages his fortunes and saves him from jail in spite of having had her life made a misery by him. This period, the late 1930s, saw the rise of fascism throughout Europe; a challenge Tilsley did not shirk in his writing. His treatment of the subject must be considered one of his great achievements, illustrated by his novel Little Tin God (1939).
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But war comes and the old doubts resurface. Little Man, This Now, like Little Tin God, gives some genuine insight into just what Nazi ideology drew its strength from at grass roots level. Tilsley is convincing dealing with the little man caught up in great events and on the options he takes up which challenge or diminish his responsibility still further. In both books the use of central characters who hold some special connection with their country’s enemies helps focus their inner struggles and allows for dramatic comparisons to be made between the respective nations.
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Episode, "The Honest Villain", broadcast 14 April 1967 An enticing contrast with Drusilla's initial twinset imageA later description of Lewis herself was of a "Home Counties heroine [who] seemed most at home in twin set and pearls", although, as noted, she came from Wiltshire, rather than the south-east, and cut her theatrical teeth in Bristol. In addition, her roles on television were diverse. In "The Tin God", Rose gave Drusilla a set of pearls for her birthday, while Halifax bought her a fashionable shift dress that she herself said she would not have dared to buy on her own.
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A former child actor, Cashman had a long career principally on television in supporting roles. His first television appearance was in the 14th episode "The Tin God" of the ITC series Gideon's Way filmed in 1964 and aired in 1965. He appeared with the National Youth Theatre in Zigger Zagger at the Strand Theatre in the West End in March 1968. He had been in the business for more than 20 years when he landed the role of Colin Russell in BBC TV's EastEnders, a character who was a participant in the first gay kiss in a British soap opera.
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When Lat decides to run for U.S. Senator, he is visited by Jehu and rancher Frank Chanault (Tom Greenway), who use the promise of their votes to coerce him into joining a group of rancher vigilantes on the trail of some horse thieves. The ranchers corner the thieves at their mountain hideout, and after a gun battle, the two surviving rustlers surrender, and Lat is shocked to discover that Tom is one of them. After Tom confesses, he accuses Lat of worshiping the tin god of money. Jehu sentences Tom to hang, and when Lat protests that he be allowed to stand trial, Jehu knocks him unconscious and then hangs Tom.
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In this story, Lowland society lawyer Cary Harmon drops in unannounced on the weather station of meteorologist Burke McIntyre, high in the Lonesome Mountains, a jagged chain of the deserted shorelands of Venus's Northern Sea. Curious about Burke's hermit's existence, Cary queries to gain knowledge of how Burke works. The Brain, a newly installed computer, does all observations, and Burke, by himself, just sits at the desk and prepares weather data for transmission to the Weather Center down at the Capital City. Cary tries to find fault in the machine, but Burke proudly argues that the Brain, "A big tin god", is invulnerable, that it can never break down.
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The Marin County council decides to thank Hoppy by presenting him with gifts of Gill's tobacco, alcohol and a monument in Harrington's honor, but Hoppy scorns these gifts as being much less than he deserves. Bonny Keller begins to worry that Hoppy will set himself up as a vindictive little tin god, and so she flees the county with Gill and McConchie in hopes of eventually settling beyond the reach of his powers. Meanwhile, Edie Keller's conjoined twin brother Bill, a sentient fetus within her body, has been yearning for an independent existence. Bill Keller is able to communicate telepathically with the dead, and they warn him how dangerous Hoppy is becoming.
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Her generally worldly and practical outlook was further corroborated by her calm demeanour at a boisterous riverboat party that culminated in a provocative striptease by a blonde teenager (Judy Geeson) who had been hired to compromise Rose.Episode, "The Tin God", broadcast 31 March 1967. In the event, Rose outwitted his protagonists. Even so, Rose thought Drusilla bossyEpisode, "The One Woman", broadcast 5 May 1967 and "refused to be nagged" by her on Sunday afternoon.Episode, "The Good Loser", broadcast 12 May 1967 She could also be quite spirited, even blunt and wilful: she was angrily defiant when held prisoner after being kidnapped,Episode, "The Avenging Angel", 28 April 1967 while, during a minor domestic encounter, Rose seemed amused by her telling him to "damn well do" something himself because she thought she was being treated unreasonably.
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It has as its background the Nore and Spithead mutinies of the 1790s. As Vincent Tilsley put it in his foreword to the book, what fascinated Frank Tilsley was that in planning and conduct the events constituted ‘the first really successful “strike”, in its modern sense, in history. It is the first example of labour ‘organising itself on a considerable scale to light for, and obtain, improved conditions’, a ‘controlled explosion which set the pattern of industrial warfare until the present day’. In the novel we get the conflicts of power between the authoritarian dictator’s personality of Scott-Padget and the more liberal humanitarian authority of Captain Crawford, and an investigation of the dilemmas of compromise, almost of appeasement, between the two views of exercising authority which in some respects recall the exploration of power relationships in Little Tin God.
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In the TV series and previous films, it was said immortals followed a traditional rule that fighting on holy ground was forbidden. The movie Highlander III indicated that fighting on holy ground would lead to unforeseen consequences but no other story indicated this and the movie also contradicted canon established in previous films. In the season 5 episode "Little Tin God," Joe told Duncan of a legend that two immortals killing on holy ground caused the destruction of Pompei, but admitted there was no evidence of this or anything similar happening throughout the history of immortals. Despite this, a number of fans criticized Highlander: Endgame for showing Jacob Kell killing other immortals on holy ground without any consequence and didn't care for the implication that it was simply a rule that others (including evil immortals) followed out of tradition, especially when the movie then showed Connor and Duncan being unwilling to kill Kell when he is on holy ground himself later.
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