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...help someone to be a busy old person, but as art and accomplishment it can help him to be fully alive. It was cheering to find such a lot of life and strength in the nursing home. I hadn't known that there was so much passion and wit...
...COUPLE OF YEARS AGO some smart publisher came out with a joke book called The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro Agnew--filled with blank pages. Billy Carter doesn't have any of Spiro Agnew's problems. He wasn't vice president (he couldn't even be elected mayor of Plains, Georgia) and when Billy pleaded "no contest" in court it was for selling beer on Sunday. That's the kind of material publishers and other purveyors of presidential pabulum realize people relate to nowadays at the supermarket counter. He's real, they say. "Billy Carter, philosopher-king, America's newest...
...been 16 years since the cult of First Family adulation last raised its head, since The Wit and Wisdom of Jack Kennedy, since the family, depicted as royalty on decks of cards, spawned a whole generation of charismaphiles. But that was the exception...
Aside from that, all he has as presented here is his dubious wit and reputation as a drinking man--the best known in America since W.C. Fields, the authors gush. He brags endlessly about his phenomenal partying abilities--his "cast iron stomach," beer for breakfast, minnow swallowing, guzzling at the banquet podium...
...could walk across a huge red carpet to the Arab Socialist Union auditorium next door. Battalions of black-bereted Egyptian police lined the roads, ringed the official buildings, and even guarded the Hilton's roof and stairways. In short, the delegates were protected from everything, suggested a local wit, except the hotel's mayonnaise...