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...daily load in the same honest way that it did in olden times? Can it stand firm in the knowledge that a new, younger structure is trying to take its place? How ironical its dedication now seems: "May this bridge . . . be . . . a lasting suggestion that (students) should devote their manhood, developed by study and play on the banks of this river, to the nation and its needs." Would Anderson consider the present fate of his Bridge a just reward for service "to the nation and its needs...
...DiSalle's plan. He said it would be impossible to enforce, with ESA's small staff. DiSalle and Valentine passed the argument to Charlie Wilson for a ruling. Sighed DiSalle: "I've been working so hard I don't know if I have any manhood left...
...most devastating prospects," says Anderson, was a future without drink: "I felt that it would be unbearably dull and barren. I could not imagine any fun or real enjoyment without alcohol . . . I was still obsessed with the idea that I was being deprived of a part of my manhood, because I was deprived of a choice in the matter of drinking." But now he can say: "The years have not been desolate; they have been rich and full, more varicolored than I could have imagined...
...Here is an artist who, hailing from the most amiably rowdy and self-confident community the world has ever known, has elected to express the timidity that can never be wholly driven out of the boast-fullest heart. To a people whose ideal of manhood is husky, full-blooded and self-reliant, he has chosen to suggest that, under the ... crashing self-assertion, man is still only a child, frightened and whimpering in the dark...
...first grown-up affair almost seduces him back to a love of life. But when he goes to keep their first rendezvous he finds her ill, and within a few days she is dead. He takes refuge in psychosomatic illness, until a gentle, understanding nurse helps him to manhood and to a courageous acceptance of the human lot. One false step with this story would have taken Author Moravia deep into the treacle pit, but he handles it with unerring skill...