The Old Notion That Brevity Is The

There Was Scarcely A Woman Alive, It Seemed, Who Could Resist The Urge To Haul Men Down Onto Beds, Car Seats, Kitchen Floors, Dining-room Tables, Park Grass, Parlor Sofas, Or Packing Crates, Entwine Warm Thighs Around Them, And Pant In Ecstasy.

Rereading A.j. Liebling Carries Me Happily Back To An Age When All Good Journalists Knew They Had Plenty To Be Modest About, And Were.

Gerald Boyd Was A Classic Specimen Of The Self-made Man. Born Poor, He Worked And Studied His Way Up Out Of Poverty Under The Guidance Of His Widowed Grandmother.

Few Expected Very Much Of Franklin Roosevelt On Inauguration Day In 1933. Like Barack Obama Seventy-six Years Later, He Was Succeeding A Failed Republican President, And Americans Had Voted For Change. What That Change Might Be Roosevelt Never Clearly Said, Probably Because He Himself Didn't Know.

The Twentieth Century Seems Afflicted By A Gigantic... Power Failure. Powerlessness And The Sense Of Powerlessness May Be The Environmental Disease Of The Age.