Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...healthy enough to be President. He suffers pain around his waist and takes drugs for it. He lacks control over his bladder and bowels, though these are regulated by medical devices to spare him any embarrassment. How he would survive the stresses of the presidency is anybody's guess. President Franklin Roosevelt was also confined to a wheelchair, but only his legs were paralyzed. Still, Wallace is making the most of the comparison. Says he: "F.D.R. was a paralytic and served four terms. I'm sure I could serve for one or maybe more...
...coach said the Sox "wound up, I guess you would say, the second greatest team in baseball...
...place him, how to get a grip on his ideas. That he was a revolutionary seems clear, but it is far from clear why he felt the need to put the Southern past through impossible contortions to fit his own ideology. He must have been Southern enough, I guess, to be unable to disassociate himself from history. He must have been troubled about that enough, though, to look for something usable in a past that contained little for him to sympathize with...
...that isn't the end of Wolff's story. Irony of ironies, guess where Wolff is now? A special student at Harvard, taking Chemistry 20 and Biology 1 as a--that's right...
...even the nice girls were cretins, and the ones who weren't were cretins and nasty too." Florynce Kennedy, the black feminist lawyer, is depressing because her life seems to have been so devoid of affection--"To me sex is like an interruption of my life and I guess it always has been." And Art Buchwald is depressing even when he's funny: "I put women on a pedestal, but fundamentally I was very hostile to them. I was trying to get even with my mother. Tying to get even with your dead mother is one of the futile drives...