The Trouble with Nowadays: A Curmudgeon Strikes Back

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A Crusty Curmudgeon and Charter Member of The Society to Put Things Back The Way They Were, bestselling author Cleveland Amory offers the last word on everything that has made a shambles out of modern life. Servants- "I have often wondered where all the good, old-fashioned servants have gone. They must be somewhere, they couldn't have all died." The Government- "The only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that the Republicans are socialists and the Democrats are communists." Women- "The day I put 'Ms.' on a letter of mine, it'll be either to someone else's mistress or the Bureau of Msing Persons." Children- "Remember, children are, no matter how much we detest them, the you and me of tomorrow." Foreign Affairs- "Every damn president since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl." Religion- "Nowadays Sunday is just one more excuse to do whatever you damn please."

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Cleveland Amory (1917-1998),who had been called "the premier protector of animals on this planet," wrotethreeNew York Timesbestsellers about his cats-The Cat Who Came for Christmas, The Cat and the Curmudgeon, andThe Best Cat Ever. A former columnist forSaturday Review, the chief critic forTV Guide, and contributing editor ofParademagazine, Amory founded theFund for Animalsin 1967, from whose headquarters in New York City he directed his far-flung anticruelty operations.