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...They are rarely able to accommodate genius or demoniac power. A society that must produce a great man in each generation to maintain its domestic or international position will doom itself...
...pages along, the author seizes the reader with a Southern gift for storytelling and never lets go. Fields relates how Jayell Crooms marries the snotty "brass cracker" Gwen from Atlanta, how the sinister Doc Bobo, Georgia's answer to Papa Doc Duvalier, proceeds toward his doom. Rich and full of color, character and moral drama, A Cry of Angels is an authentic cry of American innocence uttered just as the bulldozers knock down Tom Sawyer's whitewashed picket fence...
Like a placard bearer of apocalypse, he foretells man's doom from his bloody beginnings. The thesis: man evolved from perverted apes who ate the brains of other apes. Brains being an aphrodisiac, they increased the sex drive, which in turn increased the need for more brain food. This diet increased the size of the ape man's brain and his intelligence. Unfortunately, the skull did not increase as fast as the brain, and the resulting pressure distorted man's view of himself as a part of nature. The squeezed-brain syndrome gave rise...
...prepay mortgages and serve precisely planned dinners at an ungodly 6:30 p.m. The other half dine happily on leftovers at 9 or 10, misplace bills and file for an extension of the income tax deadline. They seldom pay credit-card bills until the apocalyptic voice of Diners threatens doom from Denver. They postpone, as Faustian encounters, visits to barbershop, dentist or doctor...
Stewart described the Alsop brother act as a "combative partnership." Joe was the brilliant polemicist; Stewart the steady fellow and, among other things, a more conscientious legman than his brother. "Joe can play the organ of doom better than I," Stewart conceded. After twelve years, in 1958, Stewart and Joe agreed to "an amicable divorce." Stewart was offered a job with the Saturday Evening Post, and soon established a persona all his own. Shortly before the Post folded he became a columnist for Newsweek. In his separate status, he split with belligerent Joe over Indochina. (Stewart: "It is not practical...