The Trouble With Nowadays: A Curmudgeon Strikes Back

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."

Cleveland Amory (1917-1998), who had been called ＂the premier protector of animals on this planet,＂ wrote three New York Times bestsellers about his cats: The Cat Who Came for Christmas, The Cat and the Curmudgeon, and The Best Cat Ever. A former columnist for Saturday Review, the chief critic for TV Guide, and contributing editor of Parade magazine, Amory founded the Fund for Animalsin 1967, from whose headquarters in New York City he directed his far-flung anticruelty operations.