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...because we have to go on with our God-awful lives. You can't just sit around and mope, you know. What is this self-righteousness? Get on with your life and try to make your corner of the world a little better. Through poetry in the Advocate, or wit in the Lampoon, or good works at PBH, or scholarly works on German philosophers, or research in Mallinckrodt or the Hoffman Lab, or research on underdeveloped nations at the CFIA, so it won't be so messy next time...
...mind of the Wasp bears more resemblance to the laser than the mind of any other ethnic group," said Mailer. "To wit, he can project himself 'extraordinary distances through a narrow path. He's disciplined, stoical, able to become the instrument of his own will, has extraordinary boldness and daring together with a resolute lack of imagination. He's profoundly nihilistic. And this nihilism found its perfect expression in the odyssey to the moon-because we went there without knowing why we went...
Each installment has seemed more amusing and airy but at the same time less real and telling than its predecessor. Desperation gave way to melancholy, which in turn yielded to benign human comedy. The wit, charm and felicity characteristic of Truffaut are abundant in Bed and Board. But now the ingredients are a little too predictable, and perhaps a little forced as well. There is much fun, but a scarcity of energy and insight...
...best known for his 1946 novel, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. "I was Mr. Blandings," he later said of the book, which poked waspish fun at the trials of a New York adman constructing a country house. A journalist noted for wit and style, Hodgins also wrote Episode, an intensely personal recollection of his struggle to overcome the psychological and physical effects of a stroke that partially paralyzed...
...began the Memoirs at the age of 50 as a family letter addressed to her son Aymar, the only survivor of the seven children she had borne. With wit and unsentimental precision she recollected the exact details of a world that had vanished as if it never existed. What delights today's reader, though, is less the firsthand history (from the 1770s until Napoleon's return from Elba in 1815) than the self-portrait that slowly emerges. The Memoirs finally trace a cameo profile of aristocracy viewed from its better side and well deserving of the definition "grace...