Americans Don't Want Cowboys To Be Gay.

Backward Is Just Not A Natural Direction For Americans To Look - Historical Ignorance Remains A National Characteristic.

Books Can Accommodate The Proximity Of Computers But It Doesn't Seem To Work The Other Way Around. Computers Now Literally Drive Out Books From The Place That Should, By Definition, Be Books' Own Home: The Library.

The Older The Violin, The Sweeter The Music.

Members Of The Academy Are Mostly Urban People. We Are An Urban Nation. We Are Not A Rural Nation. It's Not Easy Even To Get A Rural Story Made.

Americans' Lack Of Passion For History Is Well Known. History May Not Quite Be Bunk, As Henry Ford Suggested, But There's No Denying That, As A People, We Sustain A Passionate Concentration On The Present And The Future.