Anticipating That Most Poetry Will Be Worse

Situation Comedy On Television Has Thrived For Years On 'canned' Laughter, Grafted By Gaglines By Technicians Using Records Of Guffawing Audiences That Have Been Dead For Years.

Anticipating That Most Poetry Will Be Worse Than Carrying Heavy Luggage Through O'hare Airport, The Public, To Its Loss, Reads Very Little Of It.

When Sudden Death Takes A President, Opportunities For New Beginnings Flourish Among The Ambitious And The Tensions Among Such People Can Be Dramatic, As They Were When President Kennedy Was Killed.

An Educated Person Is One Who Has Learned That Information Almost Always Turns Out To Be At Best Incomplete And Very Often False, Misleading, Fictitious, Mendacious - Just Dead Wrong.

Now Scarcely A Week Goes By Without A News Story About The Cops Swooping Down On Some Adolescent Prowler Who Is As Skilled At Breaking Into Computer Systems As Defense Contractors Are At Breaking Into The Federal Budget.