Volume 21, Number 13 · August 8, 1974
In Defense of Misery
By Margot Hentoff
Beyond Monogamy
edited by James R. Smith, edited by Lynn G. Smith
Johns Hopkins, 336 pp., $15.00
Divorced in America
by Joseph Epstein
Dutton, 318 pp., $8.95
The essential choices are always made far too early for informed free will to function. How, after all, can we know what life is about until we have lived it—too late then to decide. But choice is forced on us by events, by time. Passivity has its own consequences equivalent in impact to the wildest flurry of activity. To do nothing is to waste one's life. To do something has equal potential for ruin.
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