Everything Seems To Be Going Faster And

There Used To Be This Feeling Under Eisenhower And Kennedy And Roosevelt And Truman That Government Was A Solution. Trust In The Presidency Fell Precipitously Under Johnson - Real Lows. And It's Never Come Back. It's A Trend That, If You're Liberal, Is Really Discouraging.

I Used To Work Very Long Hours. Then I Started To Realize That The Stuff That I Was Writing In The Late Afternoons, I Was Generally Throwing Out. So I Quit Earlier Than I Used To.

If Things Are Going Well, If The Writing's Coming Along, I Jump Out Of Bed Happy. And If The Previous Day Has Been Bad, I Get Out Of Bed Disgruntled.

Everything Seems To Be Going Faster And Faster. It's Really Harder To Create Something That Endures. The New York City Ballet Has Succeeded In Doing That.

In A Democracy, Supposedly We Hold Power By What We Do At The Ballot Box, So Therefore The More We Know About Political Power The Better Our Choices Should Be And The Better, In Theory, Our Democracy Should Be.