摘要
现代生活所有虚假的亲密言行中，总统竞选中所做的承诺可能是最能误导人的。我们以为对这些人已了解透彻，足以对他们做出判断。每天晚上，他们来到我们的起居室，高见不断，表白滔滔；他们念什么祈祷文，喝什么啤酒，说什么口头禅，有什么嗜好，身上有什么护身符，我们全知道。
Of all the false intimacies of modem life, the promise of a presidential campaign may be the most misleading. We think we know these men well enough to judge them. They come into our living rooms every night, plying us with insight and confession; we know the prayers they say and the beer they drink, their tics, their tastes, their talismans.
