It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways.

There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

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