his night-club act used unscrubbed words that are common gutter patois

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If a kid watches films and TV and cannot identify with education; where it's un-hip to learn or doesn't smack of any virility, then it's sort of a drag. Now, Jack Paar is a classic case of the mass media. He feels, like a lot of sub-intellects, that the matter with Adlai Stevenson was that he was too much of an intellect. Next to him - Hugh Downs, an obsequious, over-solicitous toughie-slicker who's always layin' there dead. He goes, like, "Uh, uh, what is that word, Hugh?"

"That word is non sequitur, Jack."

"Ha, ha! Hugh knows all the big words, boys and girls. He never gets laid, though, ha, ha haaa! Ya see, boys and girls, if ya wanna really shtup the broads, ya gotta be a big honest dunce."

That's why the Russians orbit the Moon first, because education is the answer, okay? If you're looking for that strength, you gotta nurture it along. You can't have Jack Paar, with kids watching him, going like, "Uh, you don't want to get hung up with any big words or any education, man."