Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authority itself. A nation needs a sense of history as much as it needs a sense of the future; it needs tradition not as a soporific, but as a means of measuring itself. Anthropologist Loren Eiseley defines the problem: "It would be an awful bother to have to reorient oneself every morning. If you build a skyscraper so rigid that it cannot sway, it will crack and break under the tension. The same is true of social institutions; change must be allowed for. But for an institution to be an institution, it must perforce have some rigidity...
When it comes to exercising the fingers, Rubinstein contends that too much practice destroys the spontaneity of a performance. Besides, he says, "I want to live?live passionately. So I don't believe in all this nonsense of tying oneself to the keyboard all day." While most musicians practice for five of six hours every day, he will go for days without looking at a piano. Some younger pianists, he says, in their note-niggling pursuit of perfection, end up "taking a performance out of their pocket instead of out of their heart." This lack of involvement, he feels, extends...
...response will be when drink is consumed with food and while sitting in a relaxed atmosphere, in contrast to drinking without food and standing in tense circumstances; how the use of alcohol provides meaningful experience when partaken with another, while a drink alone is as uncommunicative as talking to oneself; and how intoxication is sickness and not strength...
...half of us were still in high school when he died. He was our candidate--the first national figure whose emergence we could watch and whose victory we could celebrate as our own. Only once in a lifetime is it possible to feel that first tremendous excitement, to give oneself completely--as another generation gave itself to Roosevelt, perhaps-- to a figure as remote as the President of the United States...
...hundred years ago, one learned how to heat the sick by apprenticing oneself to a physician and watching how he did things. The best medical schools, Harvard included, simply corporated this system into a loose academic homework, supplementing it with some formal instruction. Apparently, this instruction was at very thorough; it ran four months of the year, and the final examinations (oral) were would to have been scandalously easy. Faculty members collected their salaries directly from students, who had to buy tickets for each course they took...