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...some observers, the return to religion is actually a revolt against revolt. As previous generations felt it necessary to throw off old orthodoxies, so this generation is ready to discard yesterday's iconoclasm, which had become a sort of orthodoxy...
...fifth card. Best of the lot, perhaps, is Somerset Maugham's Straight Flush, a poignant tale of a man burdened with failing eyesight, and not idiocy, who chose the one time in 64,973 chances to misread his hand and toss a small straight, all pink into the discard. The gentleman gave up his hobby of a lifetime and directed his future interests toward philanthropy...
Empire Game. There is still much that the Japanese would like to discard ("Not because we have grown to hate Americans," explained one Japanese, "but because we have got tired of them."), but they cannot. Though they have found their way back to sovereignty, the Japanese have not found the way to stay alive without the help...
When Walt Whitman's Drum Taps, a book of Civil War poems, appeared in 1865, a 22-year-old reviewer named Henry James laced into the good grey poet. "To become adopted as a national poet," wrote young James, "it is not enough to discard everything in particular and to accept everything in general, to amass crudity upon crudity, to discharge the undigested contents of your blotting-book into the lap of the public. You must respect the public which you address; for it has taste, if you have not." To which Whitman, for once laconic, snorted: "Feathers...
...style commercial announcers, many of whom have spent 20 years selling a multitude of products over the air, may be on their way out. Elbowing them toward the discard is a new breed-most of them entertainers by profession-who have tied their commercial destinies to specific sponsors...