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...despair I felt of that war and ran the gamut of existence form women's issues, racial issues and the preservation of a habitable planet to the technical ontological and theological questions in which I believed I would find answers to everything else. To protect and extend the chain...
...struggle for life took on peculiar and acute form in my generation. One of the hopes on my string of hopes is that we did the job well enough that your task, and my nieces' and nephews', will be a little less peculiar, a little less acute. The chain was almost broken; by God, it held. It held because a few thousand people struck stunned and alive by instincts and expensive education's and rough upbringings and deadly cities were able somehow to achieve and maintain the chain outside itself on to your generation, and then clean...
...chain I have tended includes--it may have stared with--Seixas and Dancing. As I shuffle off the scene, out of the blacksmith's shop, if you will, Seixas and Danzig have outlasted in my memory thousands of idiotic distractions the world wished to impose, in the name of power, against my conception of life, against life itself as I live it. Real life is a competitiveness that smiles at losses and can write about...
...Army ROTC, the top of the cadet chain ofcommand is all from Harvard," says Curtis L.Pierce II '94, cadet sergeant major of the ArmyROTC MIT battalion. "It would hurt the programwithout Harvard...
...conferences. Military writers sometimes portray Ike the General as a genial and soothing Alliance board chairman at best, or at worst a glad-handing bumbler. Eisenhower the Supreme Commander was none of those. He was a driving, demanding man of terrific energy: up before dawn, to bed after midnight, chain-smoking four packs of cigarettes, drinking 15 cups of coffee a day. He was a military perfectionist, impatient with his subordinates and a peerless, lucid briefer. He had a volcanic temper he struggled to control but sometimes used as a tool. He was naturally friendly, with a famous grin...