Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amazed, shocked and mystified when I read the remark attributed to me in a story entitled "Post Office" [June...
...conditioned to develop conceptually profane areas in their minds to accommodate words that in themselves are neutral, that sends missionaries to teach innocent people living comfortably in warm climates to be shameful of their bodies-which, paradoxically, are made in the image of God -it is refreshing to read of the new morality, which, new or old, was always concerned with the whole man, his intent, not merely his flesh. The days of busybodies and social cancers with boots up to their knees and collars up to their ears are hopefully numbered...
...When he gets out, he thinks that he may return to school. Meanwhile, he watches his step and counts the days: "It's a long year. Here a year seems like five years. I never gave a - about this or that until I came over here. I just read the sports pages before. Now I read and try to form my opinions. I feel I'm more mature since coming over here. I got more responsibility-'cause it's my own ass I've gotta protect." If he succeeds at that task, his happiness...
...lives to fatten its authority. The foot soldier who delivers the tenderly piteous speech that includes "I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle" is a Negro, suggesting that the king rules by exploitive oppression. When the list of the French dead is read, each dead man rises with a blood-splotched white mask to stand at the footlights in a solid phalanx facing the audience...
...Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters. -Macbeth