Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard R. Baxter, Head of South House at Radcliffe, said, "I am whole-heatedly in favor of coeducation. I would like to see it brought about as soon as practicable. I know people want it--and not after they graduate...
What Beskow has attempted seems like a new biographical form because it is done so well. Reading it you feel what you feel what you know Beskow wants you to feel, an appreciation of the places and things Hammarskjold himself appreciated, an impression of the simple elegance of the man's style...
...with wonder that I realized that I really knew nothing more about him then than I had in second grade. And from the newscasts it was obvious that the press didn't know a great deal more. They had miles of video-tape and films to document what he had done, but none of them seemed to have a very good idea of just who he had been. He had been the rarest of public figures, the man who honestly wished to keep his private life private--and succeeded...
...term for his book, "a portrait," is incorrect, because one does not begin to get, even at a single point in time, a full picture of the man. It is obvious that Beskow knew Dag Hammarskjold well, but it is equally obvious that there was much he did not know. That is why it is so pleasing to find Beskow never straying form what he knows, and knows well. He talks about meeting Hammarskjold, about buying him a seashore cottage near his own, about the books the Secretary General read and his taste in art. He talks about the times...
...other than theirs when I saw them shuffle back and forth staring at the streetlights while the dog on the other end of their leash let go on a fire hydrant. What are the metaphysics of a dog walker's reality? They couldn't be of Nature as we know it to be natural...