Word: chesterton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musical is blessed; in its book and score, it is blubber. The show is a two-character, two-gun salute to the enduring joys and passing frustrations of 50 years of married life. "A marriage is neither an ecstasy nor a slavery; it is a commonwealth," said G. K. Chesterton; in I Do! I Do!, marriage is a half-century diet of cotton candy...
...Pertinent to your excellent article on middle age are those lines from Chesterton's great epic, The Ballad of the White Horse: "But the hour shall come after his youth,/ When a man shall know not tales but truth,/ And his heart fail thereat...
There is a tendency of the mind to exhaust itself over questions that life either boldly brushes aside or answers with the authority of natural instincts. As G. K. Chesterton put it: "The note of our age is a note of interrogation. And the final point is so plain; no skeptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon. 'Am I a boy?-Why am I a boy-Why aren't I a chair?-What is a chair?' A child will sometimes ask these sort...
...fresh start. "Under their hand, political principles, laws, and human institutions seem malleable, capable of being shaped and combined at will," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. "A course almost without limits, a field without horizon, is revealed." Americans on the whole have tended to agree with Chesterton, who said: "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes-our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead...
...ponder the threats posed by Mao Tse-tung. The Bondsmen seem far too giddy a crew to inflict any permanent injury on young or old, male or female. As art, the spy spoofs have little value, and they lack even true satirical purpose, or what Critic G. K. Chesterton in A Defence of Nonsense called "a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth." A craze occurs when an acquired taste unaccountably becomes an addiction. Without ever believing in it, audiences find the spoofery easy to swallow. But mock espionage may be hard put to survive a throng of second...