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...many great bureaucracies left. Which is why the first IRS Problem Solving Day last Saturday was, in the end, a rather sad occasion. No one wants to see the Revenue boys ? the guys that have those militia fellas all in knots, the guys that brought down Al Capone, for gosh sakes ? reduced to wearing brightly colored buttons and greeting you like the preacher in the receiving line after Sunday meeting. You want your tax service to put the fear of God into you, to be firm but fair, and for there to be Serious and Severe Consequences...
...escorted them inside the building... [Once there the] Negro children reported that they were well treated... During the noon hour, a white boy and girl, both school leaders, saw a Negro boy eating alone. They asked, "Would you like to come over to our table?" The boy smiled gratefully: "Gosh, I'd love to." And another Negro pupil recalled, "The white kids broke the ice. They talked to us." Clearly, many of the white children of Central High School were proving themselves better citizens than their elders...
...literary conceit or is it an outing? The cover of the October Esquire proclaims that KEVIN SPACEY has a secret. The story opens by suggesting that the secret is that Spacey is gay, but goes on to say the real secret is that he's a movie star. (Gosh.) It could be seen as a smart-alecky way of writing an otherwise glowing account of Spacey's merits, but it irked the star's handlers. Spacey's agent, Brian Gersh, went so far as to suggest he would discourage anyone William Morris represents from working with Esquire, a statement others...
...Gosh, what's the point of teaching if you don't have something interesting to say and don't want to say it?" he asks...
Early in this century, the humorist Stephen Leacock said the American innocent must prove his folksy virtue by being semi-inarticulate, mouthing things like "Heck, b'gosh, b'gum, yuck, yuck." That is why Jimmy Stewart's hesitating-gulpy delivery was reassuring. His appeal went so deep because it touched America's belief in its own simplicity. When Mark Twain wanted to present himself as a traveling American, he called his tourist book The Innocents Abroad...