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...20s went off the cliff and pinwheeled onto the rocks below, a world economic crash that seemed a retribution for too much heedlessness and gin. By the time the '30s, W.H. Auden's "low, dishonest decade," gave out, the Nazis were spreading out all over Western civilization. And so on. The '40s--the first half of them given over to world war, the second half hardening into cold war and nuclear anxiety--did not make anyone want to linger...
...spills over into the latest additions to Sahib GearŠ, our traditional themewear collection for anyone born too late to experience colonial rule, steamer travel, first-edition Fitzgerald, freshly ironed linen and servants who were like members of the family. Since you can't go back to Paris in the '20s or Havana in the '40s or even Brooklyn in the '50s, we bring it to you, with all the quality jodhpurs, dusters, spats, boaters, corsets, spurs, poodle skirts, pince-nez and butcher's smocks you've come to expect from us--but at a fraction of the price you might...
...album reminds you that at heart, the Beatles were four guys in their 20s having a ball singing and playing their songs. Thirty years later, who needs three of them on stage straining to rekindle that fire? Anthology 2 has all the light and heat you need...
...library of Yale Law School. It could be argued that the Clintons are the first White House occupants who are pure products of the meritocratic machinery that makes Mandarins. Both grew up in provincial obscurity without any connections to the big time. Both, by their early 20s, had been clearly marked for membership in the Establishment by virtue of their accumulation of golden educational credentials. They filled their Administration with other Mandarins and, at least in the early going, tried to govern from the Mandarin mind-set, which is secular, rational and optimistic and seeks to solve problems by devising...
...California, Jobs is slightly more subdued than the hyperenergetic--and, some would say, megalomaniacal--pitchman of old. "You have to work differently once you have a family," he says. (He lives with his wife and three children in a large house in Palo Alto.) "When I was in my 20s, I literally would work 18-hour days, seven days a week. You do that with a family, and you won't have a family for very long...