"There is an intimation at the women's colleges that a counter-reformation which could become the hope of the Republic may be under way," Author Bernard De-Voto (Across the Wide Missouri) observed in Harper's. "Jeans are no longer universal wear and no one now loses caste by washing her neck . . ."
"Nothing rustles, nothing casts a fluttering shadow: there is something frightening about the very unhauntedness of 'functional' modern rooms," Irish-born Novelist Elizabeth (The Heat of the Day) Bowen wrote in the Saturday Review of Literature. ". . . Atmosphere has been conditioned out of the air . . ."
"It seems...
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