Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed to Reginald Kell that "there must be some easier way out than engineering." So he took up the clarinet. After one day, because he had once studied violin, he could play a couple of tunes. In ten years, he was a professor of clarinet in the Royal Academy of Music, which later made him a Fellow, "a fate I thought reserved only for respectable musicians, like an organist at St. Paul...
...Tall Man. To find his man, Professor Anderson worked by a patient process of elimination. The late Allen Johnson, editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, had decided on internal evidence that the diarist must have been 1) a New Englander, 2) a former Whig, 3) a Republican in 1860-61, 4) a Senator. Anderson eventually decided that Johnson might be wrong on any or all counts...
Invitation to a Voyage. The correspondence began amiably enough: after kicking young E. M. Forster in the teeth ("He sucks his dummy-you know, those child's comforters-long after his age"), Lawrence got down to business. "There must be a revolution . . . nationalizing of all industries . . . communications . . . land-in one fell blow." After that, man could really start "the adventure into the unexplored, the woman," and "fight clear to his own basic, primal being." Lawrence begged his new friend Russell to be a kind and tolerant listener...
Russell's answer must have been tolerant, because Lawrence promptly complained that it was. He then went on to say: "You must put off your . . . knowledge . . . you must live in my world . . . if I can't inhabit yours." To make sure, he went to stay a few days with Russell in Cambridge, rushed away in a state of "melancholic malaria." "I wish you would swear a sort of allegiance with me," he said. ". . . I have been much too Christian . . . I must drop all about God . . . You must drop all your democracy . . . There must be an aristocracy . . . a Ruler...
Absolute Woman. In letter No. 11, Lawrence became more emphatic. "You must work out the idea of a new state," he insisted, underlining the word "must" 15 times. Lawrence suggested that in addition to a male "Dictator" the new state have a female "Dictatrix" too, in fairness to the female population. The ultimate aim, he continued with passionate wooliness, was "a perfect government" dedicated to "the highest good of the soul, of the individual, the fulfillment in the Infinite, in the Absolute...