The Banality of Banal

REVIEWSrnThe Banalityrnof Banalrnby Clyde WilsonrnA Life in the Twentieth Century:rnInnocent Beginnings, 1917-1950rnby Arthur M. Schlesinger, ]r.rnBoston/New York: Houghton Mifflin;rn557 pp., $28.95rnIfirst thought I would title this reviewrn"Memoirs of the hnperial Jester." Thernjester being one who, though of no importancernhimself, is always present at . . .