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...will sweep the exhausted and disarrayed Democrats off their feet. The one major flaw in the theory is that no one has yet come up with a plausible name. Some Democrats believe that Senator Edward Kennedy might be persuaded to accept a draft; others keep hoping for Senators Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey or even McGovern; still others yearn for a genuinely fresh face and a fresh start for the party. But for the moment, at least, Jackson is out front and going for broke. For the present, as never before in recent times, the rest of the field is clear...
...some talent and some money, if one knows how. He wants, in particular, to encourage "the young, who even in these easy going seventies hear far too much about what a serious matter life is." And certainly, his portraits of the times with Thurber and Ross, John O'Hara, Edmund Wilson, and so on, are pleasant evidence for his thesis. Some of his contemporaries may have had trouble learning the first rule of life--always to have a good time--but Gill, says Gill, was "one of the lucky ones with a knack...
When he quotes Edmund Wilson's definition of the man of letters--"one who can accomplish any literary task that happens to come his way"--Gill describes himself as well. He is our best drama critic, and he arrived at that position only lately, having proved himself at profiles and obituaries, fiction and all manner of criticism. When he writes the autobiography that shines through the cracks in this book, he will need to put The New Yorker aside for a time...
...other critic, with the possible exception of Edmund Wilson, was so persuasive in coaxing readers to rush out and buy the book he himself had just read. But while Wilson made his readers feel it was their duty as civilized men, Connolly made any recommendation look like a pleasure no hedonist could afford to miss...
Compare that with Edmund Burke's celebrated 18th century address to the electors of Bristol, in which he promised the voters not obedience to their desires but the free exercise of his judgment. Burke's elevated remark won an enduring place in political history-but he soon fell out of favor with his Bristol electors. America's founding fathers decreed that Congressmen should face re-election every two years to give them "immediate dependency" on the electorate. A public that scorns Congress as a whole usually likes its own Congressman, particularly if he has made...