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...each one of us and put us in a small narrow box with four walls surrounding, and say that our political interest must be limited to events inside our boxes. They are very happy if our political consciousness is limited to affairs in our own country, and they're happier if all you care about is your own state. And they are even happier if your political consciousness is limited to your city. And they reach nirvana when all you care about is yourself...
...salary as an assistant professor was only $13,000, and he worried about gaining tenure. So he was happy to do some consulting for the Social Welfare School of the New York State University at Stony Brook, and even happier when Stony Brook offered him a full professorship, tenure, the possibility of "innovative teaching," and $26,000 a year. Without telling either university about his job at the other, Mills began making four weekly trips over the 115 miles between New Haven and Stony Brook. At Yale, on Fridays, Saturdays and Tuesday nights, he taught his two regular courses...
...Picasso's clowns and cubes, though often playful, contain a seriousness of their own, they are participants in the tragedy of modern life. The pathos and existential incongruities of his earliest cicus figures, painted in the poignancy of his Blue Period, never made it to the happier atmosphere of the Left Bank. In their wanderings along the empty beaches of a pictorial and spiritual vacuum, their sad-eyed slouch re-appears on the roads of Fellini's La Strada, their shabby existence is spot-lighted in the arena of The Clowns. On the beach, they will later encounter Picasso...
...disciplines offer no absolutes. On practically any issue, "scientific" evidence is used to support diametrically opposite points of view. Take vasectomy, for example. According to one recently reported investigation, this procedure for male sterilization (in which the tubes that transport sperm are severed) makes sex more pleasurable and marriage happier. According to another, the operation can lead to less satisfying sex, and ultimately to separation and divorce...
...observation that those who are not shot through school tend to get more out of it, and are happier," Simpson said...