Word: remarkable
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Henry Adams's experience provides an interesting point of comparison for the similarities and the differences. There is the all to familiar backhanded smugness of his remark that, for all its shortcomings, "Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any college than in existence." And it was certainly still true in 1958 that, as a body, the most formidable critics one would care to meet, in a long life exposed to criticism. I cringed to remember the soon we heaped on an innocent who, asked in a freshman humanities class what it meant to say the gods in the Iliad...
Henry Adams's experience provides an interesting point of comparison for the similarities and the differences. There is the all to familiar backhanded smugness of his remark that, for all its shortcomings, "Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any college than in existence." And it was certainly still true in 1958 that, as a body, the most formidable critics one would care to meet, in a long life exposed to criticism. I cringed to remember the soon we heaped on an innocent who, asked in a freshman humanities class what it meant to say the gods in the Iliad...
Henry Adams's experience provides an interesting point of comparison for the similarities and the differences. There is the all to familiar backhanded smugness of his remark that, for all its shortcomings, "Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any college than in existence." And it was certainly still true in 1958 that, as a body, the most formidable critics one would care to meet, in a long life exposed to criticism. I cringed to remember the soon we heaped on an innocent who, asked in a freshman humanities class what it meant to say the gods in the Iliad...
Henry Adams's experience provides an interesting point of comparison for the similarities and the differences. There is the all to familiar backhanded smugness of his remark that, for all its shortcomings, "Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any college than in existence." And it was certainly still true in 1958 that, as a body, the most formidable critics one would care to meet, in a long life exposed to criticism. I cringed to remember the soon we heaped on an innocent who, asked in a freshman humanities class what it meant to say the gods in the Iliad...
...Possessed, Dostoyevsky offers a characteristic irony: "I have a plan-to go mad." That remark is a motto of one of his literary heirs, Elie Wiesel. A survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel has long been recognized as a visionary, reading symbols in the charred remains of the Holocaust. But it is Wiesel the artist who commands the attention of Theologian-Critic Robert McAfee Brown. In Messenger to All Humanity, Brown provides the best introduction to the score of works that have made Wiesel a leading candidate for the Nobel Prize...