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...Maloof was bartending when the news of the missing tapes was reported on TV. "You wouldn't believe the look on their faces," he recalls. "They can't believe this guy. I'm honestly afraid he might force a revolt in this country. Hell, this ain't a banana republic. We don't want a coup d'état. But he's going to drive some people...
Saxbe rose steadily through State ranks-speaker of the house in 1953-54, attorney general in 1957-59 and 1963-68. But he never lost his love of the land and his country directness. A favorite expression when someone is talking nonsense: "He ain't wrapped too tight." Various inept politicians, Saxbe scoffs, "couldn't run a chicken downstairs with a broom...
Nixon or no Nixon, there ain't no peace anywhere except, perhaps, in that Skinnerian box called classroom. In fact, to start to live reality one should assume the existence of a wartime atmosphere similar to what was once called the Cold War, providing the setting for our entire political economy. Know only that the pace of so-called peaceful world development has accelerated even as the costs have risen, and realize the lower and middle classes are being publicly asked and politically pushed into grudging support for the effort here at home ("pay any price, bear any burden...
...jowl dialect and cheery absurdity. There, over 150 anthropomorphic critters gnawed away at the English language, baring kernels of political meaning, and carried on not-so-innocent satires of human pomposity. Phineas T. Bridgeport, the Barnum of bears, orated in billboard letters that burlesqued hucksterism everywhere. "Nuclear physics ain't so new and it ain't so clear," declared Rowland Owl, a bedraggled Perelmanesque pedant. Churchy LaFemme, a poetic turtle, reveled in alliterative aubades: "Whence that wince, my wench?" At Christmas time, Albert the cigar-smoking alligator led his Okefenokee swamp singers in newly shined carols: Deck...
...ain 't done or seen, She'll hold any stranger tight...