Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scientific innovators encounter no resistance; they are eagerly embraced. The number of condemned heresies is shrinking all the time. "When I was young," recalls Philosopher Sidney Hook, 60, "certain positions on smoking by women, birth control, easy divorce and labor unions were considered dangerously radical. Not now. What we suffer from today is not fear of ideas so much as a dearth of ideas." Disagreeing for its own sake, says Hook, is simply synthetic individualism. "A man can conform or not conform and still be an individual, as long as he uses independent judgment...
...smaller because they saved their necks, like Galileo. There are the obscure men who, by an accident of history, are forced to develop individuality or at least strength, like Emperor Claudius and Harry Truman. There are, above all, the unremembered and unknown individuals who take their stand and suffer their small martyrdoms in all places and all ages. With them in mind, Kierkegaard said: "The truly extraordinary man is the truly ordinary...
...their strong composition was that the family became "genially interested in almost nothing but each other." Emerson corroborates this view in one of his notebooks. He records: "Henry James said to me, he wished sometimes the lightning would strike his wife and children out of existence, and he should suffer no more from loving them...
Most U.S. journalism schools suffer from mild inferiority complexes, because both editors and intellectuals tend to re gard them as trade schools. But there are exceptions. Most notable among them is Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, which has only to survey the communications field whenever its self-confidence needs bolstering. Last week, at the start of a month-long celebration of its soth anniversary, Columbia could-and did-note that among its 2,700 living alumni are 132 newspaper publishers and editors, 46 magazine editors, a score of journalism school deans, ten Pulitzer prizewinners and a raft...
...Americans find it difficult to conceive of such sacrifice perhaps it would be easier to remember that the Chinese are making war against poverty and backwardness in as real a sense as they would wage any kind of foreign war. The food shortages they suffer are relatively not much worse than, for example, those of Britain in the worst stages of World War II. In spite of the people who would bring even further hardship on the Chinese in the hopes of crumbling the regime, it is hard to blame Snow for wishing their revolution well...