Spreading Out from the Middle
Sir: TIME'S cover story, "The Command Generation," [July 29] is brilliant and penetrating. The writer is knowledgeable and wise . . . and I have a bone to pick with him.
He says, "In his 40's a man has done pretty much what he was capable of doing. Most depressing, he knows that he will have to go on doing it with ever-brighter, ever-younger men nipping at his heels." It is precisely that self-imposed psychological impotence that lies behind T. S. Eliot's middle-age "hoo-ha's." The primary affliction of middle-age is the fear of taking a chance, sloughing off...
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