Word: cynics
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...Commentary on spinning the truth [VIEWPOINT, Dec. 25-Jan. 1], Michael Kinsley confused Hobson's choice (no choice at all) with Odysseus' choice between Scylla (the six-headed monster) and Charybdis (the whirlpool). However, a cynic might feel that both Hobson's and Odysseus' predicaments aptly describe the quandary faced by the electorate. HOWARD BARTON Northridge, Calif...
...tears, I'm a grown man and moved to tears by this teeny-bop concoction, this early '60s equivalent of Britney Spears. (Phil called them "little symphonies for the kids.") But it's not Britney Spears - it's better. It gets to me. It defeats the cynic within, dismantles the censoring mechanism, and bypasses the cool-meter. I achieve the actual, never-articulated goal of the obsessionist: the ecstatic experience...