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...forever reading the books of unknown authors, or listening to the lectures of his juniors, lest he overlook some undiscovered genius. He detested "educated cleverness in the service of popular idols and vulgar ends." As a teacher, he preferred thinkers of another sort: "Our undisciplinables are our proudest product...
...last press conference was like many that had gone before: there was little news. When the time came for questions and a newsman asked about his "golden moment" in Canadian public life, sober-sided Mackenzie King could not think of an answer. Said he: "I am proudest . . . of keeping this nation united." On questions about the new cabinet and the next election, King was his artful self in saying nothing. "I have been advised to avoid controversial issues," he said...
...more this is supposed to hold true even when everyone else in the area is also wearing civilian clothes. It will be just that much more obvious tomorrow afternoon, for any student who makes the trip to West Point will find himself surrounded by 2,496 of the fittest, proudest, and most highly disciplined young men in the world...
...proudest idea was a new egg ("The yolk will be made of smoked meat, the white, of compressed rice, and the shell, of synthetic lime ... It will be delicious"). Under his remorseless hand, builders labored for half a century constructing pavilions, terraces, bridges and lakes. And still, he was never happier than when giving help to others; e.g., telling his tailor how to cut trousers, his tobacconist how to roll cigarettes, his banker about the banking system of the medieval Florentines...
Plowing Through Plato. By last week, Jacobs had just about doubled the number of library card holders. He had eight reading groups going, plowing through everything from Plato to the Bill of Rights. But he is proudest of the schoolkids he has turned into book lovers-the little Negro girl who read 150 books in one summer; the seventh-grader who produced a letter from his teacher saying he was smart enough to read adult books and then asked for a volume of Toynbee; the 8,000 kids enrolled in his summer reading program. Says Jacobs: "I think a child...