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Richler carries out the investigation with unflagging scatological zest and a deadly, unsparing eye. At the London film colony's weekly softball game, the players' first wives come to jeer, and the scores and strikeouts have more to do with careers and sex than with the game. On Montreal's St. Urbain Street, while sitting in mourning for Jake's father, friends and relatives pass around vulgarities and insults along with the cake. Canadian intellectuals are "reared to believe in the cultural thinness of their own blood. Anemia is their heritage." In gum-gray England...
Live television can be quite lively, as viewers of the British version of David Frost's talk show discovered last week. In mid-interview with Yippie Jeer-leader Jerry Rubin, some 30 Yippie yahoos stormed the studio stage, screeching obscenities, knocking over equipment, squirting Frost with water and insults ("You are a plastic man. You have been dead for years"). The host retreated first to the audience, then to another studio to continue his showwhile switchboards lit up with calls from indignant Britons and TV officials asked each other how those awful Americans had managed...
...Harold Hothan "jeered and booed" when the Czech waiter flashed a Nixon-Agnew button [Aug. 24]. To that waiter, a slave in a slave state, that button was a sacred symbol of free elections, free speech, free trade, free minds and private property. It was a symbol, to him, of life worth living. When Harold jeered that button, he jeered not Nixon and Agnew but the nation and the concept of America. The waiter literally risked his life to show Harold that button, and all he did was jeer at it and at him. Harold Hothan sickens...
...half-time show was under way at the Super Bowl, and the high-stepping Southern University band was presenting a thunderous reprise of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. Then, as the announcer intoned "1,300 Englishmen died here," an irate football fan was heard to jeer, "Yeah, and one Greek...
...Left is one part idealism, two parts the posture of idealism. Pretensions exceed performance, and New Leftese is one measure of the distance between the two. The New Left justifiably aspires to regenerate the body politic. But all too often New Leftese turns out to be a jeer trying to do the work of a jeremiad. The New Left prides itself on having, in Oglesby's words, "restored the possibility of ideological thought." But New Leftese mostly favors ideas that can be daubed on a placard. American radicalism is in danger of making itself voluble without making itself articulate...