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| Alistair Cooke
"I find baseball fascinating. It strikes me as a native American ballet-a totally different dance form. Nearly every move in baseball-the windup, the pitch, the motion of the infielders-is different from other games. Next to a triple play, baseball's double play is the most exciting and graceful thing in sports."A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.As always, the British especially shudder at the latest
American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years
later.
Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air. Canned music is like audible wallpaper.Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. He had mastered the art, far more difficult and rarer than that of a
successful politician, writer, musician, actor: success as a human
being. Was he, then, too good to be a politician? Yes, in the sense
of being too touchy to weather feuds and grievances, to gentle to take
the rough-and-tumble. This courtly, twinkling, roly-poly, comical man
was of that estimable order of Americans -- Henry Clay, Robert E. Lee,
Norman Thomas, perhaps Wendell Wilkie -- who left a lasting impression
by the energy of their idealism but who were never quite strong enough
or ruthless enough...to turn goodness and mercy into law and policy.
Maybe it can never be done. At any rate, Adlai Stevenson remains the
liveliest reminder of our time that there are admirable reasons for
failing to be President.It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution. Topless Pizza Lunch. Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest
crime rates in the country.
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster. The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy. |
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