Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRIMSON's perpetual bias towards SDS news stories and anti-Administration editorials is by now no surprise to anyone who reads the paper regularly. I know with dismal certainty that each issue I see will contain the same proportion of radical rhetoric on every page...
...robot, you see, and he's trying to convince a VIP who's qualified to receive an artificial heart to accept a fiber heart instead of a metal one because he doesn't like to see "mongrelization" between humans and robots--except that you aren't suppose to know until the end that he's a robot. That's because the story is supposed to be loaded with IRONY and SOCIAL RELEVANCE...
Whatever it is, the choice has been made, and there's really no turning back. And I don't really know just why I'm sad that it must be as it will be. Maybe I'm just a romantic; maybe I only want to see the space-pilot analog to Ivanhoe; maybe I love the dreams of my childhood too much. There's just no telling. The only certain thing is that--whether we go to Mars or not--the choice has been made. You can see it in our literature; you can see it reflected in the increasing...
NOTEBOOK begins with poems to his daughter Harriet--throughout he invokes her, age 9, 10 1/2, 11, for what she can be, love, and know beyond him--"God as seaslug, God a queen with forty servants, God. . .she gave up--things whirl in the chainsaw bite of whatever squares the universe by name and number." Harriet--outside, in life, sometimes is able to see through "the fog" which her father like "the first philosopher. . .trying to pick up a car key clumsily opaques with his headlights." Harriet appears frequently in the poems--to clarify, identify, be, to be hoped...
COLUMBIA, Mo. June 8--For the first time in 29 years, Harry S. Truman won't be coming to this mid-Missouri city for the commencement ceremonies of the University of Missouri, and observers here feel they know the reason why--Truman is going to be in Cambridge, Mass. instead, to get the Harvard honorary degree he has so long desired...