Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Willie opened the day-long session with an apology for the remarks of two Harvard professors who called black colleges in the United States a "disaster area." Willie called the remark "both insensitive and insulting," and urged the black scholars attending the conference "to set the record straight and tell us how they have done so much with so little...
Miss Keaton does not so much rise above all this as defy it. Looking a little like the White Rock girl with a degree from Sarah Lawrence, Keaton coaxes and brasses her way through her role. At one point, she must remark of the floozy upstairs, who sports low necklines and is bedeviled by brown supermarket bags that disintegrate from below, "Oh, her cantaloupes are always falling out." Keaton pays so little mind to the awkwardness of the line, to its prewashed vulgarity, that she makes it charming. Talent like that goes beyond skill; it is a kind of bonkers...
...particularly puzzling feature of Speer's experience in prison is his religious evolution. He attended church service every Sunday, read theology, and talked occasionally with the chaplain. On reading the remark, "It is a precious thing to be patient and to hope for the help of the Lord," Speer observes somewhat scornfully, "Silly, to take any stock in that." But he seldoms mentions religious matters, much less his own spirituality. Then suddenly, in 1962, he writes simply, "I believe in a divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and goodness; I trust in his ways." What brought about...
...metaphysics as in religion, he is fundamentally an agnostic. Though he decries the lack of morality in Nazi Germany, Speer can offer no alternative. He writes in 1952, "Much too late I am beginning to grasp that there is only one valid kind of loyalty: toward morality," but the remark has an empty ring because Speer has no moral system, still less an allegiance to one. If he ever tried to confront the problems of moral philosophy or religious faith, it is not apparent in these diaries. He contents himself with lip service to the trite idea of the basic...
...about the shoplifting fracas at Mel's Sporting Goods store, in which Patty helped the Harrises escape by firing weapons over their heads? West explained it away by saying that she performed exactly as she had been conditioned to do. He made much of Patty's first remark to the Harrises: "Did I do it right?" Patty, said the psychiatrist, was seeking their approval as though she were "a child...