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...proclaims that America has no problems-and then goes on to propose Democratic solutions for them. Why is this? Well, 1956 is an election year, and from intimate personal experience and from my reading of Republican history I am reminded again of what Disraeli said of his opposition, Robert Peel: 'The right honorable gentleman uses two languages: one during his hour of courtship, another for his years of possession...
Nothing enrages the sophisticate more than olives, onions or other hors d'oeuvres in a martini. But a twist of lemon peel is usually acceptable. In faraway Wisconsin, the latest cult insists on an anchovy-stuffed olive...
Actually, Esther Williams started out wearing old-fashioned bathing suits, one on top of the other. Then she began to peel. She displayed everything from the first bathing costume ever created, which looked like a snow suit, down to a bikini. She didn't wear the bikini. She palmed...
...longer holds any surprises. Eliot's lesser poetic cousins-Auden, Spender, Stevens-sip the highballs that somehow fail to intoxicate, that are diluted by too much intellectual ice. There are such grand old but long-familiar individualists as Martini-clever e. e. cummings (with lemon peel) and hard-cider-happy Robert Frost. The younger men frantically mix their drinks, from opaque Bloody Marys to phony-bucolic applejack. Mostly they are reduced to talking to each other...
...genuine German Schloss, complete with park and pond, now owned by the proud potato-peel tycoons of Thedestrasse...