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Though generalizations often miss the mark, most of Brooks's charge gets home on this target: "Our thinking class quickly reaches middle age, and, after a somewhat prolonged period during which it seems to be incapable of assimilating any fresh experiences, it begins to decay. The rest of our people meanwhile never even grow up. For if our old men of thought come to a standstill at middle age, our old men of action, as one sees them in offices, in the streets, in public positions, everywhere! are typically not old men at all but old boys. . . . In short...
...lamented the coming doom of civilization in the nineteenth century and was glad that he was born early enough to be able to avoid witnessing this doom. And in the same way, every decade, before and after Goethe--and before Mr. John Haynes Holmes--has had its prophets of decay. But none of the prophecies appear to have worked out. Civilization has had its ups and downs but it has never become an unrevivable corpse...
...went to Solomon in fear and trembling. Consensus of scholars is that the capital of Saba (Sheba) was Mareb, about 750 mi. from last week's putative discovery. Once a flourishing and autonomous trade centre, during the early Christian era Mareb fell to successive conquerors and its decay was hastened by the collapse of a great irrigation dam. Modern explorers have found the ruins and numerous inscriptions to identify them, but no mention of any queen. Some authorities suggest that a queen may have lived in the north of Arabia and acquired the wealth of Mareb by force...
...about a similar theme. By tracing the fortunes of three generations of Irish men and women, Mr. O'Faolain has been able to realize the implications of his subject to the full, and heighten its significance against a background not of revolutionary violence merely, but of long-drawn social decay...
...says: "I know for sure that I grew up in the epoch of the greatest Russian might, and of the full consciousness of it." Born the third son of impoverished country gentry, "Alexey Alexandrovich Arseniev" grew up in central Russia in an atmosphere of shabby nobility and melancholy decay. His father was an attractive spendthrift who lived on memories of the Crimean War, magniloquent hopes for the future, present delusions of his own practical sense. Alexey had the upbringing and the schooling of a reduced gentleman, but there was no career in store for any of the Arseniev sons. Nicholas...