While Firing Line has had its share of world leaders (featured in the first
installment of this celebration, above), "personalities" have been so thick on the ground that Mr. Buckley and his producer, Warren Steibel, decided to limit this anthology to people who had appeared in the show's first five years. Some of the Did-people-really-do-those-things-in-the-Sixties? vignettes defy simple quotation: Timothy Leary in his flower-child outfit; Allen Ginsberg playing his harmonium and chanting Ommm. Then there's the young Muhammad Ali: "I'm thinking ahead of myself. You see, you're a wise man, and you make a man think." WFB: "Did that ever happen in the ring?" MA: "No, boxers don't think as fast as you. They're slow." Or the youngish Norman Mailer: "You know, for years I've felt that the greatest trouble with this country is that it's insane.... One of the tiny things I felt it was certainly insane about was me."
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