As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.
Wilfrid Sheed
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It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.
thetimes time
Carmichael was, like many Americans, a divided soul, part nomad and part homebody, who seemed a little bit at home everywhere, but was probably more so someplace else, if he could just find it.
home
women home
The one kind of society that the Church cannot adjust to is no society at all, i.e., a setup where community has become so fragmented that a communal religion is a fiction, sustained only by talk and make-news items in the press and television.
community society religion
The rational man may talk a good game about suicide, but reason must give way to obsession and finally squalor before he can actually do it.
man game games
This country is merciless to good small talents. A writer who doesn't take chances and swing for the fences (whether or not he has a prayer of reaching them) is less than a man.
chance talent man
His interviewing self is, or was, an extra person, like the Holy Ghost, generated by self-contemplation.
self
How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.
movies
Through the burgeoning university network, it was suddenly possible to think of oneself as a national poet, even if the nation turned out to consist entirely of English departments.
nations
As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.
places
Off she'd go to the hospital, a place I believe she secretly liked because they treat you like a child there.
In modern American style, his job, not his past, defined him.
style
The best comedy is always heartless, an alternative to rational emotion.
comedy emotions
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
tests heroes
It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.
symbols
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