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...funny as it is, "Fear and Loathing" requires nothing but hysterical laughter and self-indulgence while biding time before the apocalypse. And as Thompson admits, "As true gonzo journalism, this doesn't really make it -- and even if it did, I couldn't possibly admit it. Only a goddam lunatic would write a thing like this and then claim it was all true...
...They slowed down the goddam rabbit. That guy up there (he pointed to some invisible place high atop the grandstand) slowed it down. This was my big one for the night, and he had to slow down the damn rabbit...
...suspicion that the President, who came to power with a reputation as an effective manager, has bungled the affair so badly as to prove himself an incompetent executive. Many businessmen feel that he chose his key subordinates unwisely and gave them too much power. "The people around Nixon were goddam fools," a California retailer was overheard to mumble. The mistakes were compounded, businessmen think, by an administrative scheme that kept the President isolated and uninformed-something no corporate executive could afford...
...glory. At the conclusion of his disastrous World Series with the Mets, Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver philosophized, "You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddam plate and give the other man his chance." Then he paused and concluded: "That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." ' Or is it? Surely football is closer to the Zeitgeist, with its chatter of "long bombs" and marches downfield. Surely basketball with its constant scoring...
...close terms with the son of his old friend Joe Kennedy, LIFE's editorial page gave a narrow endorsement to Nixon. When Luce suggested that, as a Democrat, J.F.K. would naturally adopt a liberal domestic policy, the elder Kennedy seemed surprised. "Harry," he erupted, "you know goddam well no son of mine could ever be a goddam liberal...