There follows a little obscenity here, a dask of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.
Source: Salt into Old Scars, in Toward a Radical Middle, 1971.
-- Renata Adler, (Oct 19 1938-____), US journalist, writer; She was a staff writer-reporter for?The New Yorker, and chief?film critic?for?The New York Times.