Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the Kirkland House musicians playing at the convocation was cellist Michael A. Flaksman '66, who snapped a string on his first note. Master Taylor commented in expressing his final thanks: "If I were a cello, all my strings would be broken...
...brand of individualism: "Nothing is so corrupting to a man as to believe it is his duty to save mankind from men. He comes to evil because he must first usurp the rights of men and finally the prerogatives of God." And occasionally he sounds a warning note worth heeding amid the euphoria of the Great Society. "I believe that once you let someone decide what's good for you, you've got to accept it," he declares. "The ultimate end of this sort of surrender is totalitarianism...
Freeways & Broadway. Although the book is terse and sometimes cramped, Morison takes time for digressions-for instance, an unimportant but charming section on the sporting life of New England gentlemen. Perhaps the book's dominant note is nostalgia, and Morison avoids involvement in most concerns of other historical theorists, including the urbanization of America, the new influence of the Supreme Court...
...graduated political gift; Presidents occasionally might receive a case of Madeira, while Cabinet members would rate only terrapin, and Congressmen wound up with canvasback duck. Ward never arm-twisted guests or mentioned his interests, but when a bill of his reached the floor, former tablemates would receive a note: "This is my little lamb. Be good." Though he helped others make money, Ward could never hold on to it himself; before turning to lobbying, he had lost his family's Wall Street fortune and made and lost two others in California. Finally, weary of Washington, Sam returned...
...next day Vellucci phoned the settlement house worker; she phoned the executive. The settlement house got a new stove, and a week later, Vellucci got an appreciative thank you note...