Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When we now say, "I love," "I believe," "I suffer," or "I mean to be a success," and hear it fall into the human universe of billions, it is, of course, threatened with absurdity. And yet the young know this to the very marrow of their bones in a way we did not used to know it. It arouses anxiety when one feels one is only one example among so many, but it is a new kind of anxiety...
When we now say, "I love," "I believe," "I suffer," or "I mean to be a success," and hear it fall into the human universe of billions, it is, of course, threatened with absurdity. And yet the young know this to the very marrow of their bones in a way we did not used to know it. It arouses anxiety when one feels one is only one example among so many, but it is a new kind of anxiety...
...used to talk about our expectation of happiness. You can't imagine how seldom you hear the word "happiness" today, except colored by derision, and with this has come a whole shift in the concept of responsibility. His last responsibility is to himself and not to systems. He is engaged in responsibly exploring himself as we never were...
...declared Mr. Justice Douglas, is "relying on guns and dollars rather than ideas . . . Out there you never hear the U.S. voice raised in defense of the little guy . . . What Asia needs is sympathy, understanding, an attitude of cooperation in the things they are trying to do."Douglas spoke glowingly about "land reform,"a magic phrase to liberals and leftists. Douglas was dissatisfied with what the U.S. is doing about land reform: "MacArthur's [land reform] program made no impression at all in Asia, outside of Japan...
...Cannes, King Farouk, whose appetite runs to rare and beautiful objects, paid $4,500 for a butterfly collection that caught his eye. Next day, his hotel manager, who happened to hear that the King liked frogs' legs, ordered a special banquet for the royal party: 1,200 legs rushed down by train from Paris...