John Michael Plumb

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    “Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
    —C. John Sommerville (20th century)

    “I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.”
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    “And now the winter sea:
    Within her hollow rind
    What sleek facility
    Of sea-conceited scop
    To plumb the nether mind!”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)