In the face of the modern crisis, both poets turn their eyes to the past and actualize history: every epoch is this epoch. But Eli...ot actually desires to return and reinstall Christ; Pound uses the past as another form of the future. Having lost the center of his world, he throws himself into every adventure. Unlike Eliot, he is a reactionary, not a conservative. In fact, Pound has never ceased to be a North American and he is the legitimate descendent of Whitman, this is, he is a son of utopia.... Pound's erudition is a banquet after an expedition of conquest; Eliot's, the search for a standard that will give meaning to history, stability to movement. Pound accumulates quotations with the heroic air of one who robs graves; Eliot orders them as if he were hauling in the relics of a shipwreck. Pound's work is a journey that perhaps leads us nowhere; Eliot's, a search for the ancestral home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a n...ew challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulne...ss, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision--whether to... fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the servic...e of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NO...W deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With importa...nt connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A new kind of woman with deep-rooted values is changing the way we live. Market researchers call it "neo-traditionalism." To us it...'s a woman who has found her identity in herself, her home, her family.... She is part of an extraordinary social movement that is profoundly changing the way Americans look at living--and the way products are marketed. The home is again the center of American life, oatmeal is back on the breakfast table, families are vacationing together, watching movies at home, playing Monopoly again. Even the perfume ads are suddenly glorifying commitment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »