Earlier this week I took a prolonged pot shot at Peggy Noonan, for claiming that the selection of Condoleezza Rice as Mitt Romney’s running mate would be “brilliant choice.” In fact, I said, the selection of Condi would be applauded by about six people, ending my post with an exceedingly under-researched rhetorical flourish suggesting that…
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Great God, how naïve!
Back in the day—pretty far back in the day, actually—James Thurber announced that he would no longer discuss T.S. Eliot’s stage rage “The Cocktail Party” with young women. He was tired, he said, of hearing them all exclaim “Great God, how naïve!” Although I’ve never discussed “The Cocktail Party” with anyone, I have a pretty…