Word: milles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...patrol car. Outraged black pastors organize a march into white territory. Hawkers sell T shirts with the still missing Cody Martin's picture. A chillingly efficient mother's group equipped with a corpse-sniffing dog searches for the boy. Jesse follows. Bigfeet from the national press and TV mill around. Jesse knows more than they do, but not much more. Detective Council knows more than Jesse, but only a little more. Brenda's boss, a black woman who runs a biracial day-care center, says that Brenda is a good, stable, caring worker. But something is wrong, still, with...
...four years now, I have shared my thoughts with the Harvard population. I think, sometimes, that it would have been easier to say nothing. And, of course, it would have been. For the private sphere is a great deal more comfortable than the public, and J. S. Mill never promised believers in his disputatious Nirvana a free ride...
DIED. WRIGHT MORRIS, 88, writer-photographer of the middle-American gothic, who spun Fargo-like tales of small-town strangeness about his native Nebraska; in Mill Valley, Calif. His 33 books netted awards, but his plainspoken prose didn't sell well, dooming Morris to the dubious distinction of being one of America's most admired but least read men of letters...
...intent to challenge with my writings; and by challenging, I meant to improve, to jolt slumbering minds into wakefulness. Even if my contrarian opinions have been incorrect, I hope they have made you rethink received opinion and conventional wisdom, as J. S. Mill suggested they might. But I conjecture, with reserve, that at least some of my contrarian opinions have been correct. If so, I hope they have made you reject received opinion and conventional wisdom...
Harvard's unfriendly decision jeopardizes our freedom of expression. As John Stuart Mill said, "Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom." To this end, Harvard should do as much as possible to create an atmosphere conducive to and supportive of free expression, lest we risk the loss of potential genius...