Requiem For Holidays

Requiem for HolidaysThe rate of a person's descent into senility can be gauged, it is said, by the degree to which he reminisces. If he harks back to The Good Old Days no more than a couple of dozen times a week, he is considered competent to function; if, however, he is a compulsive reminiscer, forever glorifying the past to the debasement of the present, he is patted on the head and fed soft foods. Certainly he is not taken seriously. Why should he be? Old coots are the same everywhere. Becaus...