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...people would worry a little less about how the "younger generation" is going wild, and a little more about the kind of world that generation is going to inherit, maybe things wouldn't be in such a mess...
...Gain a Plague. Among the men around Churchill in this moment of decision would be several who have hoped to inherit his leadership: tired, greying, 49-year-old Anthony Eden (most Britons still think of him as younger and more dynamic than he actually is); cool, aloof Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler; able Sir Oliver Lyttelton; clever Harold Macmillan; lazy Oliver Stanley. But there was little doubt that the telling weight in the decision would be Churchill's. And there was almost no doubt that Churchill would decide against trying for a knockout blow...
...critic and a warmhearted patron. Tennyson, who was a proud man, as well as crotchety and hypochondriacal, readily accepted from FitzGerald unwavering criticism and hundreds of pounds. "This really great man," said FitzGerald, "thinks more about his bowels and nerves than about the Laureate wreath he was born to inherit." He was almost as observing about himself: "I know that I could write volume after volume as well as others of the mob of gentlemen who write with ease; but ... I have not the strong inward call, nor cruel-sweet pangs of parturition, that prove the birth of anything bigger...
...veteran threatens to change the nature of the College. "The lights are burning very late," Mr. Bender writes, "and there is not much leisurely talk or fellowship or group spirit. In the College, particularly, there is an unhealthy emphasis on grades." Here is a problem that Bender will inherit in all its complexity from Dean Hanford next July: how to relax the veteran and Keep Harvard from becoming a round-the-clock grind factory. This is no easy task, with graduate schools expecting their peak demand for admission to last longer than in the College. Nonetheless, a greater emphasis...
What creature, then, might inherit the earth? "Rats," said Professor Romer...