He is the British replica of Tarkington's Seventeen: fatuously earnest, readily friendly, but suspicious, on occasion, with that fierce suspiciousness of youth questioning .
Certainly, as columnists go, old Newsman O'Hara (New York Herald Tribune, New York Daily Mirror, PTI) writes as brightly as most and less fatuously than many.
In truth, Dukakis' campaign weltanschauung is as fatuously sunny as Bush's.