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It Takes Great Self-confidence To Write A Newspaper Column. Some Might Say It Takes Arrogance. Be That As It May, My Willingness To Pronounce On A Great Many Matters Of Which I Have Little Or No Knowledge Is One Of My Prime Qualifications For This Trade.

Unpleasant Questions Are Being Raised About Mother's Day. Is This Day Necessary? . . . Isn't It Bad Public Policy? . . . No Politician With Half His Senses, Which A Majority Of Politicians Have, Is Likely To Vote For Its Abolition, However. As A Class, Mothers Are Tender And Loving, But As A Voting Bloc They Would Not Hesitate For An Instant To Pull The Seat Out From Under Any Congressman Who Suggests That Mother Is Not Entitled To A Box Of Chocolates Each Year In The Middle Of May.

Ireland Really Is My Problem; The Breaking Point Of The Huge Suppuration Which All British And All European Society Now Is

Though Americans Talk A Good Deal About The Virtue Of Being Serious, They Generally Prefer People Who Are Solemn Over People Who Are Serious. In Politics, The Rare Candidate Who Is Serious, Like Adlai Stevenson, Is Easily Overwhelmed By One Who Is Solemn, Like General Eisenhower. This Is Probably Because It Is Hard For Most People To Recognize Seriousness, Which Is Rare, Especially In Politics, But Comfortable To Endorse Solemnity, Which Is As Commonplace As Jogging.

Those Who Remember Washington's Cold War Culture In The 1980s Will Recall The Shocked Reactions To Reagan's Intervention. People Interested In Foreign Policy Were Astonished When In 1985 He Met Alone At Geneva - Alone, Not A Single Strategic Thinker At His Elbow! - With The Soviet Communist Master Gorbachev.