"And beginning in 1965,1 mixed Communist and capitalist patterns together without qualms, simply under the aspect of accumulation: Mass movements like vacations, shopping, and driving over here were the same for me as marches, parades, and sporting events over there." Bayrle is a pathological squinter, equipped with a structural vision at once so near- and farsighted it can register only similitude.

For the first time in my life, I come up with a word using all seven of my letters - squinter. Of course, an argument breaks out as to whether this is acceptable and a hunt for a dictionary ensues.

Every myopic squinter, groping for their glasses in the morning, would love to wake up, open their eyes and see the world around them.

We can contrast him with Dafydd Gam |David the Squinter', whose handicap proved no bar to a strenuous career, culminating in the heroic death at Agincourt mentioned in Henry V Iv.viii.(6)

But even the most well-intentioned squinter cannot find in them the sort of decisive mandate for change that Lipset and Schram find lurking in the numbers on the election of our latest plurality president.