Against Impotent Hopes and Living Despair

that fact bodes ill for the future ofnAmerican and Western culture. "Anarchynno longer has the power to jolt us."nshe wrote in May of 1949. "whichnmeans that we should perhaps take heednof our condition." The degradation ofnWestern culture so evident 30 vearsnlater has proved her words prophetic.nixeviewing the Forties . . .