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...dimensionality and reduced to human levels, and the landscape have been deflated from three-dimensional grandeur into a series of all-too-familiar picture postcard images. Although this decline developed from the wariness with which we now approach our national myths, it is, more noticeably, the result of simple surfeit in what is after all a somewhat limited genre...
...collection, belongs on any short list of great 20th century stories. Its narrator is an excruciatingly proper and longwinded sort who turns a day's worth of rambling into a small comic epic. He jousts with a tailor over a defective suit: "The sleeves suffer from an objectionable surfeit of length, and the waistcoat is eminently distinguished in that it creates the impression and evokes the unpleasant semblance of my being the bearer of a fat stomach." His adventures are many, but nightfall brings them to an end: "As I looked at earth and air and sky the melancholy...
Sennett's earliest books on the conflicts of urban life suffered from a surfeit of youthful idealism, but he struck a more original lode in The Fall of Public Man (1977). In the 18th century, according to his theory, men enjoyed a public life that was quite different from their private lives; they dressed in street costumes that identified them not only by caste but by profession; they felt at ease in talking to strangers but keeping them at a distance. During the 19th century, partly as a result of the pressures of industrialization, private life came...
...unreasonable to yearn to live in Wyoming, a place with sparkling clean air, no income taxes and a surfeit of elbow room. Some residents of neighboring Nebraska's western panhandle want to become Wyomingites, but they do not intend to move. They want to secede...
That portion of affection and generosity is being toasted with a self-congratulatory high visibility these days. The condition also beguiles with a spray of mad moonlight and a whiff of tidal air. The latest expression of the baby boomers echoes in the surfeit of blossoming tummies, tired legs and aching backs of these regiments of expectant mothers. The party may even continue into the night. Frenetic Futurist Alvin Toffler believes that only a lack of medical technology binds women to the end of fertility. He writes: "Once child bearing is broken away from its biological base, nothing more than...