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William James played golf with John D. Rockefeller now and then. The philosopher of pragmatism admired the psalm-singing old pirate of Standard Oil. James was bemused that Rockefeller could be "so complex, subtle, oily, fierce, strongly bad and strongly good a human being." John D. was "a most lovable person" and yet, as James wrote to his brother Henry in 1905, seemed "a man 10 stories deep, and to me quite unfathomable...
Carter appointed himself to a new historical position--which he made up as he went along--as America's anti-President: a psalm-singing global circuit rider and moral interventionist who behaved, in a surreal and often effective way, as if the election of 1980 had been only some kind of ghastly mistake, a technicality of democratic punctilio. And so, for nearly 20 years, Anti-President Carter has circled the world embodying hyperactive paradox: insufferable self-absorption and self-righteousness in the service of admirably selfless causes...
...reported the first caller, breathless. "People with blood loss." Michael Barnes, 12, was looking elsewhere for help. There was no way to retreat into the school buildings; the doors had automatically locked as the finale of the fire drill. So, crawling to the shelter of the gymnasium, Barnes chanted Psalm 23 to himself: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil...
...field and pulpit and playground, in kitchen and classroom. The U.S. Negro, shedding the thousand fears that have encumbered his generations, made 1963 the year of his outcry for equality, of massive demonstrations, of sit-ins and speeches and street fighting, of soul searching in the suburbs and psalm singing in the jail cells...
...significance of space and relative height in the debate over the construction and shape of the proposed Knafel Center. Across the street from the home where Henry and William James once read the works of Swedenborg, on the side of Emerson Hall is inscribed a quotation from the eighth psalm, "What is man that thou art mindful of him?" President Lowell commissioned the inscription, overruling the original request of the Philosophy Department that the wall read, "Man is the measure of all things." It seems that Harvard, in planning the Knafel Center, is operating on the probable truth...