I Have The Spirit Of The Stairs

March, 1961

When oscar wilde, upon espying a skull doing paperweight service on a friend's desk, said "Death is so Gothic; life is so Greek"; when Noel Coward tossed off "Women should be struck regularly, like gongs"; when Leo Durocher – we'd better get a Real He-Man in here quick – said "Nice guys don't win ball games" or whatever that was; they did more than go down in history as snappy conversationalists. They made life tough for mortals less gifted than they. Mortals like m...