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Most boys go through a stamp-collecting phase and then forget it before their Scott's International Album is one-third filled. But Philip H. Ward Jr., who started his first collection at the age of four, stuck with stamps, and by the time he reached young manhood, was so wrapped up in perforations and first-day covers that he gave up an electrical engineering career to become a fulltime, professional philatelist. In the next 50 years, he built one of the finest U.S. collections of postage stamps ever assembled. He specialized in blocks of rare stamps-four...
...sounds the way an unmade bed looks. Playwright Lewis John Carlino (Cages) uses the name Telemachus to invoke the son of Odysseus who could not draw his father's great bow. Carlino's Telemachus is illegitimate, and he searches for the lost father and the fullness of manhood in his Spoon Riverish home town and later in Hollywood...
These facts on balance suggest that although the pay is low it is not drastically so and that acceptance of a teaching fellowship should not necessarily call into question one's virility and vitality. There is no need, therefore, for section men to prove their manhood by attacking all the "Cliffies" in their sections, as one member of the Committee seems to suggest that they should. (The only alternative interpretation of his remarks is that a high income is required to avoid celibacy at Harvard and recent official utterances suggest that an undergraduate's allowance is adequate to finance promiscuity...
...that the Negro should accept second-class citizenship in return for the assurance that whites would give the Negroes industrial training and jobs. DuBois became part of the Negro outcry against this compromising policy. "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights," he wrote. "We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a free-born American: political, civil and social; and until we get these rights, we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America. The battle we wage is not for ourselves alone...
...thing to Western Civilization; they serve to define ambition and to personify philosophy. In them we see the world we would have if we could choose our world. "The search after great men," Emerson wrote, "is the dream of youth and the most serious occupation of manhood ...Our religion is the love and cherishing of these patrons." For a free nation whose moral flesh has become soft with disuse and fat with self flattery, a Great Man has a special role. More than the leader who would direct us, or the philosopher who would admonish us, he must...