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I'm Sure Partial To The Evening,' Augustus Said. 'the Evening And The Morning. If We Just Didn't Have To Have The Rest Of The Dern Day I'd Be A Lot Happier.

Members Of The Academy Are Mostly Urban People. We Are An Urban Nation. We Are Not A Rural Nation. It's Not Easy Even To Get A Rural Story Made.

Most Young Dealers Of The Silicon Chip Era Regard A Reference Library As Merely A Waste Of Space. Old Timers On The West Coast Seem To Retain A Fondness For Reference Books That Goes Beyond The Practical. Everything There Is To Know About A Given Volume May Be Only A Click Away, But There Are Still A Few Of Us Who'd Rather Have The Book Than The Click. A Bookman's Love Of Books Is A Love Of Books, Not Merely Of The Information In Them.

Working- And Middle-class Families Sat Down At The Dinner Table Every Night - The Shared Meal Was The Touchstone Of Good Manners. Indeed, That Dinner Table Was The One Time When We Were All Together, Every Day: Parents, Grandparents, Children, Siblings. Rudeness Between Siblings, Or A Failure To Observe The Etiquette Of Passing Dishes To One Another, Accompanied By "please" And "thank You," Was The Training Ground Of Behavior, The Place Where Manners Began.

I Make My Share Of Mistakes, But One I Never Make Is To Underestimate The Power Of Things. People Imbued From Childhood With The Myth Of The Primacy Of Feeling Seldom Like To Admit They Really Want Things As Much As They Might Want Love, But My Career Has Convinced Me That Plenty Of Them Do. And Some Want Things A Lot Worse Than They Want Love.