14. Kempton: Vidal controlled the argument by "the incitement of an excess of someone else's false masculinity."
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25. Vidal's sexual politics were in essence aristocratic, like an 18th century libertine or Roman Senator. That made him unshakable.
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26. For Buckley, being called a queer was a grave insult, a cutting remark. Vidal, subscribing to a different morality, could laugh it off.
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