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The Thrust Of Ambition Is, And Always Has Been, Great, But Among The Bright-eyed It Had Once A More Adventurous And Individualistic Air, A Much More Bracing Rivalry.

Conformity May Not Always Reign In The Prosperous Bourgeois Suburb, But It Ultimately Always Governs.

We Are Neurotically Haunted Today By The Imminence, And By The Ignominy, Of Failure. We Know At How Frightening A Cost One Succeeds: To Fail Is Something Too Awful To Think About.

Has There Ever Been An Age So Rife With Neurotic Sensibility, With That State Of Near Shudders, Or Near Hysteria, Or Near Nausea, Much Of It Induced By Trifles, Which Used To Belong To People Who Were At Once Ill-adjusted And Over-civilized?

It Is The Gossip Columnist's Business To Write About What Is None Of His Business.