DICK AND JOE
P., S.
courses bearing some such rubric as first came to life we could afford to laugh “Social Pathology.” For the typical Amer- ican sociologist, conflict is pathological by definition. I t may well...
...But what honest man wouldn’t prefer, if that’s the word, to find himself covered from head to foot with good clean mud sliing by Joe’s shovel...
...courses bearing some such rubric as first came to life we could afford to laugh “Social Pathology...
...The nails pared and cleaned, its 5 o’clock recent campaign seems to bear this out...
...In Dick we have Jack Armstrong...
...Joe reduced to a political institution...
...By whom...
...Witness his performance before the Senate committee whose report paved the way for his censure: a pitiful caricature of the old, rough-house Joe...
...seems to hint at a low point in his career, although no sober man will count him out yet...
...Nixon, may be a far greater danger to Nixonism is McCarthyism with its the Republic than Joe McCarthy...
...Further, he’s without Joe, after all, stuck by his Cohn and Schinel Dick has a masterly eye for the main chance...
...shadow shaved off...
...Even the liberals take heart and, routing out yesterday’s despair, announce that “Joe is dead...
...a word from him no longer brings the old fear and trembling...
...Can Dick avoid the drop...
...Misunderstood...
...He sticks close to those who represent power, he’s well set on the “inside” and he intends to scruple, will attack anyone for . . . Dick...
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...For the typical American sociologist, conflict is pathological by definition...
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...But there’s hope for us, after all...
...a trail which for him began in the cradle...
...McCarthy seems wounded to the quick...
...Detroit 4. Mi...
...arguments for all sides of any question), caught on to the All-American art of cuddling up to any politician or business man, known in the trade as a “useful contact” and, before one knew it, he was 1 HOLD WITH THOSE (probably our presiding over the “world’s greatest deDick and Joe ranks have grown since the Call election) liberative body” and running an election who insist that Vice President Richard campaign for a major political party...
...But still he will have contritlited something to our history: the first High School hov voted “most-likely-to-siicceed” who-wcceeded...
...worse still, his thunder seems to have been stolen, organized, planified and institutionalized-even bureaucratized...
...I t may well be, then, that the job will have to be done by radical journalists who proclaim their values freely, rather than by social scientists (that’s where he learned to find shallow with their pseudo-objectivity...
...O’erweening ambition, which drove Dick to accept the second best spot, may have been fatal...
...the All-American Boy...
...Can Dick go further than Joe...
...No bare-knuckle, knee-in-the-groin fighter can survive that humiliation...
...at him, this preposterous image of the clean-cut, Anglo-Saxon, middle class lad...
...His swings are wilder and miss their mark...
...It is McCarthyism Joe McCarthy is an upstart and a systematized, made palatable for the respectable and the decent, brought into primitive...
...The Vice Presidency is notorioiisly the trap door to oblivion...
...A hot shower and it’s off...
...a Jacobin among the Neanderthals...
...The “Committee of l e n Million for Justice for Joe” (are there that many retired Admirals and Vice-Admirals in the country...
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...he snarls at practically the whole Senate body, that corps of great deliberators whose tacit approval pushed him forward...
...Certainly that will be one of the big political doings in 1956...
...By Dick Nixon...
...arrived -or almost so...
...But Jack took a High School course in public speaking, proved to be championship material on the debating team harmony with current interpretations of the “American way of Life...
...When Jack, the AAB...
...The old sparks strike no fire...
...His star may already have reached its zenith...
...Full of resentment, complaints and self-pity...
...of course, America’s first Vice-president elected via the Soap Opera trail...
...The Caliban of American politics...
...Slime mixed with oil sticks much longer...
...remain there...
...Theoretically at least, yes...
...Still, McCarthy is retreating into his cave, grunting, slobbering, bitter...
Vol. 2 • January 1955 • No. 1
