One thinks of Joan Didion's essay "Goodbye to All That".
It is hard, for starters, to improve on the classic critique by Fred Rodell, a law professor at Yale, in his 1936 essay, "Goodbye to Law Reviews".
Promises?" she wrote wistfully in the essay Goodbye To All That, as she examined the despair of getting older and discovering what mattered.
Almost immediately, he wrote a devastating essay, "Goodbye to All That," which described the Republican Party as an "apocalyptic cult" given to lying and delusional thinking in the manner of certain authoritarian political movements of the early twentieth century.
In her 1967 essay "Goodbye to All That," she wrote how wonderful it had been in New York, but how she came to understand that "it is distinctly possible to stay too long at the Fair".
This winter, she wrote a follow-up to her notorious 1970 essay "Goodbye to All That," a screed against sexism among her "radical brothers" in the New Left, which was published in an issue of the underground newspaper Rat after women commandeered it.
One of the most eloquent rejections ever given to the city came in 1967, when Joan Didion wrote of leaving New York for the West Coast in her essay "Goodbye to All That" ("All I mean is that I was very young in New York, and that at some point the golden rhythm was broken, and I am not that young anymore").
In her beautiful essay Goodbye Dr. Spock, Anna Quindlen reflects on mothering her three children and writes, But the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this.
Bob Lamm's Soapbox essay, "Saying Goodbye" (Aug. 13), recalls a long-forgotten memory from the early 50's.
That line, from an essay called "Goodbye to All That," which originally appeared in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post, came back to me the other afternoon as I sat in my kitchen near the Hudson previewing the new episode of the HBO series "Sex and the City," which begins its third season tonight.
