Word: joy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH all his activity in the outside world, Professor Kissinger was very much a man unto himself. He saw very little of students, and much of his attachment to teaching seems to have sprung from the simple joy of intellectual exchange, the ego-feeding process of articulate, witty repartee. He taught one lecture course for undergraduates, contributed to a graduate seminar on Western Europe, and conducted another seminar on defense policy, full of government employees who were studying at Harvard and studded with guest speakers from the highest ranks of government. One Faculty member later called Kissinger's seminar "essentially...
...Joy of Gnomes...
...populations will be living in "liberating cubes," which to me smacks of re-entry into the womb, and a sterile one at that. How sad that man has literally progressed himself back into a cavelike dwelling. Happily, plastic and light bulbs have replaced rock and sunlight-to the everlasting joy of gnomes, no doubt...
...mouth turns down naturally, and that, along with his pointed jaw, could make him seem mean, but he never lets it happen. Humphrey laughs uproariously and shows his visitors a little plaque that says TO HELL WITH DO-GOODERS. He savors a man of light heart and the joy of children. That is why Humphrey somehow bores his constituency to death and then suddenly wins them back and goes on and on. Does he still want to be President? For a moment, there is the hesitation of a beribboned campaign veteran, and then, what the hell, he is too long...
...because there is a sadness that follows him. He gathers the tourists in his arms for the Instamatic pictures, and they dissolve in bliss. Wait, he says, have somebody else snap it so the mother can be in there too -and she goes out of her mind with joy. But is he too jolly? Yes. Driven by something that is bigger than him and bigger than anybody. There is the smell of position and power already in Kennedy's office. The couch is thick and lush, not the black Government issue. The pictures on the walls are large...