Word: aper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Picking Up Aperçus. Some of the programs advanced by Buckley are being freshly scrutinized by liberals who have become disillusioned with some of their own panaceas. Many agree with Buckley that initiative in social progress lies as much with local government as with federal. Like him, they are unhappy with the massive dislocations caused by such federal superprograms as highway construction and urban renewal. When Bobby Kennedy recently urged private industry to help rebuild the ghettos, Buckley congratulated him for a "statement so sensible that it made recommendations I made three years ago." Buckley, in fact...
Without Apologies offers no excuses for its rather inaccurate sub-title: a program of satire. There is little more than surface resemblance between the authors aped and the playlets penned by an anonymous aper. The Shakespearean parody might just as well be one of Marston and that of Odets is nothing more than a 1930ish view of Chayefskyland...