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John has also said a lot of other things. A few months ago, he told a London reporter: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that: I'm right, and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus Christ now; I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins...
...Washington's No. 1 topic last week, overpowering talk of Viet Nam, Charles de Gaulle and the Sino-Soviet split. Lyndon Johnson, who had hoped that the subject might vanish of its own accord, now found himself devoting an extraordinary amount of time to talking and thinking about it. "I remember," he told a convention of municipal officials at the Washington Hilton Hotel, "when you couldn't walk into any hostess's home without them saying, 'What do you think about McCarthy?' A month ago, it was 'What do you think about the pause...
...Merrick foresaw the worst: if he did not do something drastic, and do it fast, the advance sale would vanish and Fanny would fold. He did something so drastic that dear old Broadway hasn't been quite the same since. He promptly signed on a raft of new pressagents and launched a promotion campaign three times as vast and ten times as vulgar as anything the theater had ever seen...
...Gloves vanish off radiators, goggles disappear from snack-bar counters, boots are bootlegged before they have dried out, lift passes are torn right off par kas. Poles are stolen so often that skiers drag them to restaurants and rest rooms, hide them under the bed at night...
...dependably indiscreet. Never too far from a mirror to lose sight of himself, he is a dude in his own parlor but usually a dud in anyone else's. Nonetheless, there is hardly a woman in the world today who can get along without him. Let her husband vanish, her housekeeper quit, her children join the Peace Corps anc her best friend move away; so long as ner hairdresser doesn't pull up roots, a woman feels secure...