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...
...Those real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see...
...Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn...
...Yes, Virginia, there is a Gene McCarthy...
...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...
...We should have no enjoyment, except in winning and achieving...
...A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times a thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood...
...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...
...There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no spite to make tolerable this existence...
...For instance not only does she favor abortion, she is positively in love with it...
...Bohemian Backwaters Only in such bohemian backwaters as Madame Abzug has inhabited and now represents do such excesses go unremarked...
...You might as well not believe in fairies...
...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...
...Not believe in Gene McCarthy...
...I ! HOWL...
...the Africans are beaten, jailed, and deported...
...continued from page 4) constituents whose names still end in ski and wicz...
...In fact such excesses are actually desirable, and Madame Abzug has always provided excesses in great variety...
...34 The Alternative: An American Spectator October 1976...
...Is it all real...
...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...
...how dreary the world would be if there were no Gene McCarthy...
...Some of my little friends say there is no Gene McCarthy...
...Thank God he lives, and he lives forever...
...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...
...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...
...Thieu, and the even later regime of Mr...
...This was the editorza/ wrzter's now-famous answer...
...and the legendary activist scolds India...
...Only faith, elitism, poetry, and masochism can push aside that curtain and perforate the temporal punch card to the eternal glory beyond...
...The eternal light with which childhood fills the world wou~d be extinguished...
...It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias...
...No (}erie McCarthy...
...The Eastern Europeans are policed and hounded...
...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...
...Alas...
...Hitler...
...Nobody, not even Gene McCarthy, really wants him to be elected President, but that is no sign that there is no Gene McCarthy...
...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...
...They believe in nothing beyond the confines of their little minds...
...Paul P. .S'ome~w...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...They do not believe what they cannot see...
...is in the department of Amelvcan thought andlanguage at Michigan 5'tal~" University...
...Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding...
...They have been affected by the cynicism of a skeptical age...
...All minds, whether they be men's or children's are little...
...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...
...That is neither here nor there, and proves nothing one way or the other...
...Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world...
...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...
Vol. 10 • October 1976 • No. 1
