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Carter himself seems to understand the narrowness of the distinction between draft resisters and deserters. "Where I come from," he has said, "most of the men who went off to fight in Vietnam were poor. They didn't know where Canada was. They didn't have the money to hide from the draft in college...
Chicago has no city hospitals, no extensive city college system, no share of the welfare burden. The city is fortunate, since unlike New York it shoulders none of these costs. But the fact remains that much of Daley's success stems from his ability to hide the trade-offs he made: high wages and benefits to keep labor happy, tax breaks for businesses, large-scale downtown construction, patronage jobs for the faithful, instead of better education, health care, housing...
...first to hide his lustful thoughts...
...Hide their disgusted heads; to thee I call...
...sexual humor, of gibes at local stereotypes and assumed rural, urban, regional and national characteristics. But the rare comedian, impelled by motives that lie too deep for analysis, makes the audience itself the butt of his humor, attacks head-on the smugness, vanity and hypocrisy that people prefer to hide or ignore. Placed in the direct line of comic fire, an audience, and by extension a society, can turn vicious. One need only evoke the fate of Lenny Bruce as one case in evidence...