Word: know
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vein, Morison has just finished a biography of John Paul Jones. Entitled John Paul Jones: a Sailor's Biography, the publisher's proofs sit on the professor's desk awaiting final touches. The volume will be a Book of the Month Club selection, although the professor does not yet know when it will be published. Currently Morison is actively engaged in writing a single-volume history of the United States entitled The Oxford History of the American People...
...Professor is also an associate at Adams House and is invited to eat meals there. But he only goes on "state occasions" since he now knows very few students in the House. This is his "chief regret" about retirement. He seess very few students now and misses the contact he used to have with them. When he was still teaching he and Mrs. Schlesinger used to hold open tea at their home on Sunday afternoons, and his students were welcome to drop in at any time. Since his retirement, most of the students he used to know have graduated, thus...
...first he was not worried, for he was no novice to the game, and he knew that what you don't know forty-eight hours before the exam you have not got time to learn. But after twenty minutes of almost severely reduced concentration he knew that somewhere, something was wrong...
...Russians do not accept these concessions, chiefly because they know that a soverign Germany set up under any conditions (except with Russian soldiers counting the ballots) will march right into NATO at the first legal opportunity; they cannot afford a setback of this kind. So any compromise on re-unification will have to give Germany less than complete sovereignty in her foreign affairs...
...trusted with responsibility? I do not think so. "Anti-Semites" break no laws so long as they just write and teach their doctrines of hate. But because they cannot be convicted in a court of law would you therefore allow them to teach in the universities? No, you know as well as I that private institutions can exercise their own judgment regarding whom they desire as teachers or other employees. Might I suggest that in using this "innocent until proven guilty" standard on Communists but not on Fascists you are employing a double standard? Or do you feel that somehow...