Lexington: America the sensible

摘要

To Judge by some accounts, especially in the foreign press, America is shivering on the edge of hysteria. The grandes dames of Georgetown's dinner-party circuit are holed up in safe rooms, their children and servants decked out in nice new gas masks. The Pooh-Bahs of the New York media are dosed up on Cipro and psychotherapy. And the masses are too terrified to do anything other than pop pills and watch television. Quite unlike the Brits, who cheerfully endured the Blitz while singing choruses of "Knees up Mother Brown", America is suffering a collective nervous breakdown.