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...other assistants for Illinois Congressmen. One of them encouraged us, but the other, though helpful, indicated that John Anderson, an influential Congressman, was not nearly in agreement with our position. There were 11 people in the office, and I occasionally fell asleep...
...calculated attempt was made to burn to the ground the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, California. Fires were set at four different sites; had they all taken hold, most of the Center would have disappeared, along with the lives of two college students asleep in the caretaker's cottage. Good fortune, timely discovery, and expert fire fighting prevented the worst. But the actuality was bad enough: to speak only of measurable losses, ten studies were completely burned-one-fifth of the total-with varying destruction to the work of as many Fellows. The worst losses...
...wife, her recognition that her honor and her safety do not go together, tell us that glory is the visible brilliance of the inner fire of self-love. Hyperbolic self-esteem will lead to bitterness, as with Achilles, but in Antony and Cleopatra it visits grace. Antony is already asleep upon flowers while Caesar prosecutes war. Theirs is not perfect Christian love without touch of vanity; it is the love of heroes who appropriate the energy of heaven and earth, with only the god of internal fire both gentle and monumental...
...constant stream of comments from the bench if his squad was playing poorly. He just left it up to the players themselves, and several times, they were unequal to the task, as at Penn, where Harvard never dreamed it could lose. In the Beanpot games, when the Crimson fell asleep for the first period against B.U. and for the whole game with Northeastern. At Princeton. The Crimson needed to be hollered at, degraded, made ashamed of itself. Weiland didn't do it. Neither did captain Chris Gurry. Consequently, Harvard lost itself second place in the Ivy League and home...
...hypnotization is eerie enough. There is no swinging pendulum. Masters tells the volunteers to watch his eyes, to sit comfortably, and to react naturally; if they feel that they want to close their eyes, they should. By the time he counts to ten, he says, they will all be asleep...