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...peppered the young magazine with it. TIME called George Bernard Shaw "mocking, mordant, misanthropic," and Erich von Ludendorff "flagitious, inscrutable, unrelenting." It coined "Mussoliniland" for Italy and called drugstores "omnivenderous." When Red Grange appeared on TIME's cover, he was described as an "eel-hipped runagade" and G. K. Chesterton became "a paradoxhund...
...great English stylists, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, by Anthony Burgess or V.S. Pritchett, or by those writers, like Coljn Maclnnes, John Wain or Kingsley Amis, who have given voice to the enhanced position of the British working class-"the people of England who have not spoken yet," as Chesterton wrote nearly two generations...
...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...