Editorials
Nathan, George
Editorials Campaign ' 70 Hee haw! Hee haw! The 1970 political campaigns are at the morgue there to be drained, stuffed and sent off for entombment in the cemeteries of Great American History. You...
...In America politics has always served up an enormously generous banquet of twaddle, and fun-loving citizens follow it with the scrutiny a sorority girl accords her first outbreak of wrinkles, though never with the same consternation...
...Breathing heavily, his bulbous head lit up like an inebriate's nose, his nervous eyes rolling about like raw squid under glass, he delivered this historic asseveration: "This is a great victory for the Democrats...
...O'Brien this is a pretty vacant truth...
...Even for Mr...
...Nixon was leading the nation towards Hoover Prosperity...
...rather they stampeded when Mr...
...You could tell they had expired when the atmospheric pollution indices fell to normal, and the distinguished chairman of the Democracy, Larry F. O'Brien, appeared bathed in sweat before the Cameras of CBS...
...When decocted of its extravagance this statement means that Americans were not seized with fear when Republicans warned that America was approaching the sad fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, nor did they panic when it was suggested that SDS had stockpiled a nuclear arsenal...
...O'Brien's scholars whispered into their ears that Mr...
...What a knee slapper...
...Americans have renounced what I call (cleverly, one must admit) the politics of fear...
...Americans follow politics for many of the (continued on page 20) 0...
Vol. 4 • December 1970 • No. 2
