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Rereading A.j. Liebling Carries Me Happily Back To An Age When All Good Journalists Knew They Had Plenty To Be Modest About, And Were.

In America Nothing Dies Easier Than Tradition.

The Old Notion That Brevity Is The Essence Of Wit Has Succumbed To The Modern Idea That Tedium Is The Essence Of Quality.

There Is No Business Like Show Business, Irving Berlin Once Proclaimed, And Thirty Years Ago He May Have Been Right, But Not Anymore. Nowadays Almost Every Business Is Like Show Business, Including Politics, Which Has Become More Like Show Business Than Show Business Is.

Grass Is The Least Rewarding Of All Status Symbols... The Grass Does Nothing But Drink Money, Exhaust Energies, Crush Spirits, Destroy Sleep, Create Tensions And Interfere With The Watching Of Baseball Games, And Sprout Insolent Signs Ordering Humans To Keep Off It.