Word: sage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time for meditation (he was converted to Christianity and became a Methodist, at the urging of his wife, in 1932). He kept a diary with a page at the end of every week for rigid self-examination, instructed his chief officials to do likewise. He quoted the famed Confucian sage, Mencius: "If, on self-examination, I find that I am not upright, shall I not be in fear even of a poor man in his loose garments of hair cloth? If, on self-examination, I find that I am upright, I will go forward against thousands and tens of thousands...
...Private Diaries of Stendhal, edited by Robert Sage. An extraordinary diary covering the youthful years of the brilliant French novelist who dashed off his shrewd or naive, witty or amorous comments on how to get on in the world while he was getting on (TIME...
...PRIVATE DIARIES OF STENDHAL, edited and translated by Robert Sage. An excellent translation of the private colloquy between Stendhal and his journal when the great novelist was a young man, offering tips on seduction, brilliant insights into human nature and glimpses of a fascinatingly complex personality...
...sage Loftus realizes too that Hamden High and the Yale freshman swimming team have only limited appeal...
...Like F. Hugh Herbert's earlier effort, it is a drawing-room comedy with the shades pulled, featuring affairs which New York critics like to call "delightfully naughty." Unfortunately Black-Eyed Susan lacks the subtleties of its predecessor; the author is too consciously daring. Instead of appearing as a sage of the boudoir, he seems more like the little boy who has just pulled a successful raid...