Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever it is, the choice has been made, and there's really no turning back. And I don't really know just why I'm sad that it must be as it will be. Maybe I'm just a romantic; maybe I only want to see the space-pilot analog to Ivanhoe; maybe I love the dreams of my childhood too much. There's just no telling. The only certain thing is that--whether we go to Mars or not--the choice has been made. You can see it in our literature; you can see it reflected in the increasing...
...have felt for some time that the real issue being argued between the mature younger generation and the immature older generation is simply life v. death. Nowhere has this sad conclusion been more vividly and clearly illustrated than in the recent clash at Berkeley over the "People's Park...
...statements has raised more eyebrows than two articles in the Times of London this month in which he not only avows his belief in psychic phenomena but insists that he has on at least five occasions communicated with the dead. In one instance, he told re porters, "an elderly, sad-looking woman" actually manifested herself at the foot of his bed. A spiritualist subsequently corroborated the presence of the ghost and was able to pinpoint her precise path through the neo-Georgian mansion...
...Scrabble tournaments, often with a Russian set (he can run up a 500 score). The chess problems he eventually publishes are set first for her to solve. They like to read to each other. They reread War and Peace in a motel in Montana a few years ago, and sad to say, Tolstoy flunked. " 'He paled slightly,' or 'Andrei half smiled,' " quotes Vladimir condescendingly. "Really." Between Tolstoy and Nabokov it is clear that Vera would choose Nabokov, and the dedication she brings to him is total. Recently Nabokov heard that John Crowe Ransom, whose poetry...
...sad to think that the program is folding so quickly. I wonder if Floyd Wilson, now in Lebanon on a State Department job to teach the children there basketball and other sports he knows, ever sits back and worries that soon the freshmen might not participate. Perhaps they could be absorbed into the much more successful house program. It's sad because every year there are a great many students in the freshman class who have considerable athletic ability. They were often valuable members of teams in high school but, with the abundance of athletic stars at Harvard, cannot make...