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Vidal's perigee as a public debater came during the turbulent 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Appearing on ABC-TV, while demonstrators and police rioted in the streets, Vidal called Fellow Commentator William F. Buckley Jr. a "crypto Nazi." Buckley riposted: "Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddam face and you'll stay plastered." Mutual lawsuits finally came to a well-earned nothing...
...queer sense of emptiness takes over--a mild nausea of remembrance that seeps through daily routine. And of all the frustrations and traumas confronting you after leaving Harvard, that nausea, that emptiness spawned as the college community casts you out, is perhaps the toughest to deal with...
Some pro-gays even argue that it is harder to be a homosexual than to be black. Wrote Lawyer Walter Barnett in Sexual Freedom and the Constitution: "It is easy to stand up for the right of a black as a human being, but hard to side with a 'queer.' No matter how closely the white civil rights enthusiast tries to identify with the plight of the Negro, blackness can never rub off on him. The aura of 'immorality...
...unobtrusive throughout, which is fine when he glides into a section about union history or a polemic on strip mining, but we miss knowing what effect he has on the folks he is writing about. He only shows himself in the last few pages, when he writes in a queer objective tone about the gulf between him and Dan Sizemore. It is Sunday, and we have been with the miner and his family all week long, and longer. The book began with Dan Sizemore defending his two packs of cigarettes a day ("no reason to fear that coal dust...
...Since ransom demands often run more than $1 million, rich Italians are now looking nervously over their shoulders for the dread rapitori. Like any other booming industry, however, kidnaping has brought in a number of inefficient entrepreneurs, who, if they continue at their present stumbling pace, are likely to queer the whole business...