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Outside the Whirl. Much of Mills's special authority derives from the sheer weight of his expertise. He is beyond dispute Congress' leading authority on taxation. His grasp of its intricacies often astonishes expert witnesses who appear before his committee...
...Hungarian Freedom Fighter in 1956 anonymously represented many. Often the choice of a Man of the Year became an accolade, but not always, and in the years when the likes of Joe Stalin or Hitler was chosen, there were many angry readers who did not grasp our definition: a man or woman who dominated the news that year and left an indelible mark - for good or ill - on history. Khrushchev was allowed to look triumphant the year of the Sputnik (1957), but Hitler in the year of Munich (1938) already had so much blood on his hands that...
...authentic tragic hero; Welles makes him merely a monomaniac of vengeance. In book and play, Ahab speaks of the "malice inscrutable" of the White Whale. His mate Starbuck, the voice of reason, reminds him that "a poor dumb thing" can have no malice. What Welles fails to grasp is that it is the inscrutability that maddens Ahab, for Moby Dick is the universal mystery of things as they are. When Ahab probes with his lance for the great whale's heart, he seeks to know the secret of the universe, striving, in the same moment, to destroy the neutral...
...letter did I imply, as Cowan says, that "neither [Cowan] nor any white man can come to grips with the situation Baldwin portrays." I stated in my letter that White Americans can, should, and must come to grips with Baldwin's portrayal. But they cannot expect to grasp the true meaning and depth of the Negro's situation without experiencing confusion, threats, and perhaps much worse. To think otherwise is, I believe, to deny Baldwin's characterization of the Negro's reality and to seek shelter under a retarded variant of liberalism...
...sciences and the humanities come alive in the people who study them. Scientists and humanists are, and have been, different people. They have different backgrounds and different motivations. (b) In reporting their professional activities, scientists and humanists use different kinds of concepts, different methods to picture or grasp the world. The differing ways to judge a meaningful statement, in the sciences and the humanities, reflect two deeply different orientations. These professional differences carry over to some extent into undergraduates' informal life and through give undergraduates often disparate approaches to the same problems or experiences. (c) The professional languages...