People Who Say You're Just

Voters Inclined To Loathe And Fear Elite Ivy League Schools Rarely Make Fine Distinctions Between Yale And Harvard. All They Know Is That Both Are Full Of Rich, Fancy, Stuck-up And Possibly Dangerous Intellectuals Who Never Sit Down To Supper In Their Undershirt No Matter How Hot The Weather Gets.

Sending Grown-ups Up The Wall Is One Of The Things Adolescence Is All About. A Few Years Ago It Was Done With Rock 'n' Roll Music. Now At Least They Can Do It Quietly With A Home Computer.

The Dirty Work At Political Conventions Is Almost Always Done In The Grim Hours Between Midnight And Dawn. Hangmen And Politicians Work Best When The Human Spirit Is At Its Lowest Ebb.

Baltimore Is Permissiveness. The Pleasures Of The Flesh, The Table, The Bottle, And The Purse Are Tolerated With A Civilized Understanding.

Though Americans Talk A Good Deal About The Virtue Of Being Serious, They Generally Prefer People Who Are Solemn Over People Who Are Serious. In Politics, The Rare Candidate Who Is Serious, Like Adlai Stevenson, Is Easily Overwhelmed By One Who Is Solemn, Like General Eisenhower. This Is Probably Because It Is Hard For Most People To Recognize Seriousness, Which Is Rare, Especially In Politics, But Comfortable To Endorse Solemnity, Which Is As Commonplace As Jogging.