The Compleat Litt. D.
Two springs ago, Mr. Alfred Kohlberg sent a letter to the president of every American college and university volunteering, on a first-come-first-served basis, to deliver the baccalaureate address at the forthcoming commencement exercises. Putting all his cards on the table, Mr. Kohlberg enclosed a copy of the address he was prepared to deliver. It was a stirring peroration on our lost freedoms. A bit of a caricature, the reader got the impression as he made his way, through torrid prose, down the lengthy list of freedoms lost and persecutions instituted; but Mr. Kohlberg was prepared for that one too. After every phrase that described direly or flamboyantly the national plight, he affixed a tiny little number, in the best academic tradition. And at the end of the speech, each such phrase was identified—all of them having actually been spoken or written by eminent Liberals.
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