Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music, overshadowed by the tragedy evident in each. Byron said, "To be an artist, one must have lived through the griefs of life." Jimmy Rushing, Count Basie's blues singer, puts it, "To sing the blues, man, you've gotta have the blues." Same thought--in different words,--but still significant...
...Still there were no less than 489 men rowing at Weld...
Such recommendations are impressive. Something is indeed happening to education. The old system is not clicking so well. There are a dozen indications of Faculty, student, and graduate unrest, chiefly caused by the realization that college is no longer doing the job it once did, or might still do under changed conditions. If Harvard is to continue at, or even near, the top of the scholastic heap, it is time to take the cotton of complacency out of the administrative ear, and hearken to proposals such as the one made by the Council...
Strange indeed was such unanimity among writers, stranger still P. E. N.'s sudden plunge into politics. Startled observers asked themselves: Are P. E. N. writers ahead of their readers or are they just catching up with the world's fear that civilization is doomed? Do they really mean to fight the forces threatening it? Answers to the second question were not long in coming...
...first of these Emerson letters is dated 1814, while Madison was still President and the War of 1812 was drawing to its close. The last was written in 1881, when Emerson's mind was beginning to dim. He could no longer spell the simplest words, recall the simplest names. "He was a good man," he said standing at Longfellow's bier, "I cannot remember his name." To Sam Bradford, "oldest of friends," he says in a last letter, "I have ceased to write, because the pen refuses to spell...