Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spoken language. The Chinese word for freedom means freedom and nothing else. Its origin is indeed from two characters that by themselves mean "spontaneous" and "uncontrol," but then, my dictionary tells me the word free is from "to be fond of," equally irrelevant. And finally, no one who has read a translation of Cliuang tzii or of the poetry of T'ao Yuan-ming is ignorant of the fact that for nearly 2500 years there has been a strong Chinese ideal of "the integrity of the lone individual against the group...
...astonished to read in your report [July 8] on the Dominican Republic inauguration that Vice President Humphrey "arrived on the run, flushed and hurried over an overlong chat with Peace Corps workers." As a member of the U.S. delegation in Santo Domingo, I accompanied the Vice President to the ceremony in the Congress building. Our party was one of the first to arrive. The arrival was calm, unflushed and unhurried...
...Keyes's books are not really worth reading, why do so many people read them? The answer, to borrow yet another gem from the author's bottomless thesaurus, is not far to seek. Mrs. Keyes's disciples are predominantly women who prefer to take their history with heavy doses of high romance. The Keyes have...
Fifty years ago, eight-year-old Rumer Godden began to write a novel. "Peggy," read one memorable sentence, "looked round and saw a tigiger and a loin roring...
...Harvard opinions differed radically. Albert M. Craig, associate professor of Japanese History, said that although he read the same newspapers everyone else did, he did not see any new evidence that we are winning the war. The Viet Cong seem to be stepping up their enlistments, so that one can't judge how well we are doing by the number of enemy dead. On the other hand, he continued, thousands of villagers are leaving the countryside and coming to the cities, which would imply that the Viet Cong will have fewer people to fall back on. The United States will...