Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellas-Senator Kennedy has already lost his driver's license. What do you want? Remember, as Mrs. Rose Kennedy said, "It's how one copes that counts, not what happens." With all due respect to that lady, let us remember how her youngest son did cope: He ran away and started a conspiracy of silence...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent age he lived in?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher, because his thoughts was merely a reflection of conditions around him colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the grounds that his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse...
...there is always the danger of an exuberance of words in such infinitely delicate and unrational matters." His religion seems to have issued from a vivifying fusion of the Christian mystery of redemption and German transcendentalism. Mahler must have felt like D.H. Lawrence, who said, "Give me mystery and let the world live again for me." His religion was the imperishable struggle of life, indivisibly mingled with a passionate and mystical belief in the redemptive nurture of the creative act. Goethe and Christ were the well-springs of his faith, just as Jesus and Pan were the encompassing geniuses...
...let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim ot decide what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C--,(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C--a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks...
...quibbles of contemporary. Medievalists--at times indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that, smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbaries, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become to vast for us to cope with, or even understand; we are too small, and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, having won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give...