Among the Intellectualoids
Somers, Paul P. Jr.
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS by Paul P. Somers, Jr. Yes, Virginia, There is a Gene McCarthy Of all the words written about Eugene McCarthy, the most remembered are those penned by an editorial...
...Thank God he lives, and he lives forever...
...Yes, Virginia, there is a Gene McCarthy...
...Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world...
...You might as well not believe in fairies...
...Paul P. .S'ome~w...
...They do not believe what they cannot see...
...That is neither here nor there, and proves nothing one way or the other...
...Those real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see...
...how dreary the world would be if there were no Gene McCarthy...
...Only faith, elitism, poetry, and masochism can push aside that curtain and perforate the temporal punch card to the eternal glory beyond...
...continued from page 4) constituents whose names still end in ski and wicz...
...Nobody, not even Gene McCarthy, really wants him to be elected President, but that is no sign that there is no Gene McCarthy...
...All minds, whether they be men's or children's are little...
...Is it all real...
...There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no spite to make tolerable this existence...
...Is There a Gene McCarthy ? We take pleasure in answering the touching communication below and are indeed grateful that its author is among our readers: Dear Editor: I am 22 years old...
...Some of my little friends say there is no Gene McCarthy...
...Not believe in Gene McCarthy...
...They believe in nothing beyond the confines of their little minds...
...and the legendary activist scolds India...
...I ! HOWL...
...The eternal light with which childhood fills the world wou~d be extinguished...
...This was the editorza/ wrzter's now-famous answer...
...is in the department of Amelvcan thought andlanguage at Michigan 5'tal~" University...
...34 The Alternative: An American Spectator October 1976...
...Hitler...
...To hear her talk of it one would think abortion the culmination of romantic love, an operation of aesthetic and metaphysical beauty, limited solely by the misfortune that men cannot also partake of it...
...Bohemian Backwaters Only in such bohemian backwaters as Madame Abzug has inhabited and now represents do such excesses go unremarked...
...You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what make the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the citizens who ever voted, could tear apart...
...Alas...
...We should have no enjoyment, except in winning and achieving...
...At any rate the Captive Nations speech is always a particularly painful occasion for her, given the identity of the Captor, but this time she outdid herself...
...the Africans are beaten, jailed, and deported...
...You might get your social psych prof to hire graduate assistants to watch all the television election-eve new coverage to catch Gene McCarthy, but even if they did not see Gene McCarthy receiving any votes, what would that prove...
...Yes, Virginia, There is a Gene McCarthy Of all the words written about Eugene McCarthy, the most remembered are those penned by an editorial wm?er of the Village Voice forpubtication on August 22, 1968...
...In fact such excesses are actually desirable, and Madame Abzug has always provided excesses in great variety...
...My social psych profsays "lf you see it in the ~)ir it's s o . " Please tell me the t r m h . is t h e r e a Gene MtCarlhy...
...A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times a thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood...
...What is even more remarkable is that throughout the entire speech not once did she mention the Soviet Union or one of the Captive Nations...
...He exists as certainly as pride and egotism and the desire.to lose exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy...
...Virgenza Needl,,man 115 West 95th Street Virginia, your little friends are wrong...
...The Voice had received a letter from a girl named Virginta asking i f there really was a Gene McCarthy...
...Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding...
...In this great universe of ours, Virginia, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge...
...Instead she ran through a few arpeggios of left-liberal platitudes and concluded in her traditional manner, inveighing against the great dictatorships of this century, the United States, the late regime of Mr...
...Thieu, and the even later regime of Mr...
...No (}erie McCarthy...
...For instance not only does she favor abortion, she is positively in love with it...
...Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn...
...It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias...
...The Eastern Europeans are policed and hounded...
...They have been affected by the cynicism of a skeptical age...
...Doubtless such a limitation does not cause her too much unease, for another of her excesses is manifest in the area of male-female relations...
Vol. 10 • October 1976 • No. 1
