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Thomas Oliver, Class of 1753, built the house on what was then known as “Tory Row” after he made his fortune trading in the West Indies. Its outward appearence has changed little over the intervening years. As the Revolutionary War neared, Oliver, then lieutenant governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, managed to hold on to power as others were driven from office...
...When Khalifa bumped into his friend by chance on a Cairo street two years ago, he found Mohammed thin and weak, an outward appearance that Khalifa guessed reflected an inner dissatisfaction: "I felt that he was not satisfied, he was fed up with his life there and wanted to return. He was happy at work to a certain degree, but he seemed to regret not having made a family yet. When we met, I had children and he was not yet married. I felt that really bothered him. He appeared sad and when I said good...
...Rudenstine A Buzzing Confusion. Though a reference to William James description of how the mind is organized, it also describes the authors difficulty with projecting this concept of worldliness over the developments of the period. In a way, worldliness makes good sense. Taken to mean the internationalization and outward looking nature of the university, the demographics and the anecdotal evidence are fairly solid. Taken to mean a focus on diversity, political correctness and similar shifts, worldly Harvard is something that students today live with, and that can be traced back through the battles of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Taken...
Last year, in an essay titled "Are You Happy Yet?" Delbanco noted that "phrases like 'job satisfaction' and 'personal growth'...have become part of the language, while terms like commonweal, and even citizenship--in which there lingers a residual sense of public good and private obligation--sound archaic." Serious outward pursuits such as citizenship first require a hard look within, and we're not much for what Delbanco calls "strenuous self-reflection" these days. He notes that even Billy Graham wrote a 750-page autobiography in which he says almost nothing about his inner journey to God. "Inwardness," Delbanco writes...
...tend to go for openness and look outward in my musical searching. But recently I feel maybe an obligation to be more of a protector, a guardian, a curator almost, of traditional sounds and music, so lately I've been working that thought into my albums. However, who knows what tomorrow may bring? I may fall in love with some sound from Asia or from elsewhere, and all of a sudden my recordings may take a turn that I hadn't anticipated. You can't really program music. A musical life really shouldn't have any limits...