IRWIN EDMAN

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Life is always at some turning point.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.