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...charge that he was lazy in his 1960 campaign enrages Lodge. He concedes that even under the pressures of a national campaign, he was relaxed enough to settle back on a sofa and snooze for 20 minutes or so. But he sees nothing whatever wrong about that. Instead, he often told his aides: "Two things are vital in any campaign. You have to stay well, and you have to stay in character...
...retires" to the seaside resort of Periperi, with silver hair, splendiferous uniforms, and an inexhaustible fund of nautical whoppers ranging from heroic shipwreck to Arab dancers of more than Oriental splendor in bed. One fine day Vasco is asked to take command of a real ship. Unrattled, the sofa salt mounts the bridge, delegates all authority to the chief mate-until a moment arrives when he cannot escape command. But the very elements conspire to make him a hero and to prove a moral of sorts about the nature of man's dreams...
That said, the Sierra Club band strode off behind him into sun-dappled woods, up a winding creek bed. Many had walked no farther than the distance from living-room sofa to TV tuning dial in years. For these, the brisk uphill pace, over boulders, across the brooks and fallen trees, was arduous going. By the time they sprawled out for lunch, on ledge rocks by a waterfall, blisters were rising on tender feet...
...however, the day's events couldn't have seemed more remote. Visiting E.H. Carr, the noted British historian who is spending six weeks at Harvard, was like stepping onto a very white, very soft cloud and drifting off into a sky of milk. As he lay back on his sofa and slowly fingered his white hair, Carr talked about the past, present, future and himself with a simple, contented smile and an almost unbelievable optimism...
...dinner, we go home, get undressed like old married people, you know-and just go to bed. I mean I'm not saying I'd like to be raped on the living-room floor exactly. But I would love to just sit around on the sofa and neck...