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This Is What Holidays, Travels, Vacations Are About. It Is Not Really Rest Or Even Leisure We Chase. We Strain To Renew Our Capacity For Wonder To Shock Ourselves Into Astonishment Once Again.

The Notion That The Great Artist Requires A Great Patron Has Been Around Since The Pharaohs. That The Born Patron Also Needs An Artist To Patronize Is A Less-studied Phenomenon.

The Difficulty With Becoming A Patient Is That As Soon As You Get Horizontal, Part Of Your Being Yearns, Not For A Doctor, But For A Medicine Man.

Roughly Speaking, The President Of The United States Knows What His Job Is. Constitution And Custom Spell It Out, For Him As Well As For Us. His Wife Has No Such Luck. The First Lady Has No Rules; Rather Each New Woman Must Make Her Own.

In A Nation Of Celebrity Worshipers, Amid Followers Of The Cult Of Personality, Individual Modesty Becomes A Heroic Quality. I Find Heroism In The Acceptance Of Anonymity, In The Studied Resistance To The Normal American Tropism Toward The Limelight.