Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said, "everywhere I go I have cracks in my ceiling. It's not the landlord's fault, it's mine. Some how leaky ceilings are part of my life...
...FATHER of a friend of mine is the vice-mayor of the little town I live in outside of San Diego. He sells washing machines, refrigerators and stoves. We were eating dinner one night about five years ago, and I told him that I thought I wanted to become a professor...
...then other friends of mine tell me about the Lower East Side where half the people on the street are just leaning against some boarded-up store front, expressionless, shooting heroin into their arm through a dirty needle. Or a woman yelling at her husband on the third floor of some tenement. "Jesus. I gotta seventy-dollar-a-week habit. How do you expect me to live on that...
...intention today to attempt a reevaluation of Joseph McCarthy's reputation. He was no friend of mine, and I have no disposition to make excuse for his conduct. My first months as President of Harvard were made unnecessarily difficult by the ostensible campaign of hate he was then conducting against universities in general and Harvard in particular (primarily, I am certain, not so much because he disliked or distrusted universities, but for personally profitable political reasons). As long as I remained in Appleton he had taken no public notice of me. But when I came into the light...
...learned to talk and have only listened to the trees," he wrote. Born in Ashtabula. Ohio, in 1893, he grew up in Salem, where he and his sister Louise often romped in Post's Woods hunting spring flowers, a pastime he later recalled in White Violets and Coal Mine. Even then he liked to sketch, and in high school recorded all the local wildflowers. After graduation he entered the Cleveland School of Art. There, it was not modernist battles raging in Paris or at New York's Armory Show that influenced him, but Chinese scrolls and Japanese prints...