Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Where were you when I needed you? I read you all through high school and you and the rest of my outmoded society taught me wrong. I thought it was a privilege to enter a university. Imagine! A chance to listen and read and learn and question and maybe change an idea or two. You didn't tell me that my ideas at 18 or 20 were the only possible ideas and should be forced on an administration that, after all, had only been facing the same problems for an average of 20 years. So now that...
Instead of being condemned to an imbecile's life in an asylum, Helen Keller learned to read and hear with her fingers, and by touching others' throats and lips, she was eventually able to verbalize the words she visualized in her mind. At eleven, she was raising money for the benefit of other blind children. She traveled. She wrote stories. She maintained an animated correspondence with writers and clerics; Mark Twain named Miss Keller and Napoleon "the two most interesting characters of the 19th century." At the turn of the 20th, Helen Keller went to college at Radcliffe...
...palace, he handed an aide, Bernard Tricot, two keys to a safe. In a gesture reminiscent of Cardinal Richelieu's leaving a posthumous message to the French people, De Gaulle had deposited a document, presumably his resignation, that on his telephoned signal was to be opened and read to the nation...
...begins at 5 a.m. when a pretty, auburn-haired night nurse wakes the men with the inevitable hypodermic of penicillin, and leaves. It ends at 11 p.m. when she comes back on duty, switching off the TV and lights. Day is half-read magazines and half-watched television, dressings to be changed, and surprisingly good food to be taken on a tray in bed or, if one is able and ambitious, in the mess hall with the scores of other shuffling men in their faded blue pajamas. It is the colonel making his rounds, passing out Purple Hearts and, oddly...
Some constitutional-law experts saw in the decision a new pragmatism, an emphasis on tangible results that can be read as a warning to many Northern de facto segregated schools. In any case, Georgia Governor Lester Maddox understood full well what the court's decision meant for the South. He ordered all flags on state property flown at half-mast, and in an official proclamation announced that it had been "another black and tragic Monday, when the United States Supreme Court again ruled in support of the demands of the Communist Party." The decision, he predicted with desperate hyperbole...