I see the New York Post has now settled on “polo-playing philanderer” as its standing tag for the fellow who won the heart of Kerrykennedycuomo. For some inscrutable reason, this reminds me of a favorite entry in my commonplace book, gleaned from Auberon Waugh’s autobiography, Will This Do?: “The rich are terrified of the class war, and tend to play it down, being convinced that they will always lose it.”
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Terry Teachout is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. Satchmo at the Waldorf, his 2011 play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced off Broadway and throughout America.
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