The Baby Boom is dedicated to the memory of

Clifford Bronson O’Rourke and Delphine Loy O’Rourke, progenitors thereof.

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires

Or quizzes upon World-Affairs,

Nor with compliance

Take any test. Thou shalt not sit

With statisticians nor commit

A social science.

—W. H. Auden

from “Under Which Lyre”