Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine therefore suggest two congruent functions. The apparent purpose of the machine is to grind out up to date versions of the truth. But at the same time our machine is turning out the truth, it is also acting as a social escalator, helping the unsocialized ambitions. Needless to say, neither function can survive alone. The machine which focusses exclusively on making leaders will have an intellectually moribund faculty which cannot set the right example for the students. Only when the academic mind is operating at full efficiency can it make its viewers love the smell of success better than...
First of all, regarding General Ayub Khan it is still too early to say what kind of a ruler he is going to turn out. It is true that conditions in Pakistan had come to such a pass that some drastic action was not only necessary but also probably welcome to the populace. It remains to be seen whether the leader of the so-called "best fighting force east of Suez" can also be the leader of the country with the worst political mess both east and west of Suez. I would like to chime in with Mr.Awan in hoping...
Indeed, it is very disturbing that neither exiled President Mirza and Revolutionary President Ayub nor your two worthy readers from Pakistan had anything to say in favor of democracy and civil rights. This is in great contrast to the statement of Prime Minister Nehru that the answer to the stupendous development of Communist China is a "challenge to democracy to achieve equal progress without coercion," not a Mirzaesque approach that democracy is unfit for this challenge...
...academy" (of which Capote was supposedly a prominent member): "Critics have to make a living." The same was true, he added, about "all this Beat Generation talk. I read Kerouac and that other fellow, that poet, and they have nothing in common. Critics just have to have something to say, to write about...
...finally, on current critical ballyhoo about the South as a source of symbol and meaning: "Tommyrot. You can say Faulkner, but not really. The only really regional writer in the South was the creator of Br'er Rabbit...