Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inch-thick notebook. In the end, the indefatigable man was able to present his long, cool and collected charge to the jury and then catch the lawyers for the defense flat-footed by sentencing them on the very next day. Said he afterward: "They didn't think I'd have the time to prepare the charges against them...
...Assurance. In the long view of history, says Schlesinger, "We delude ourselves when we think that history teaches us that evil will be 'outmoded' by progress and that politics consequently does not impose on us the necessity for decision and struggle . . . History is not a redeemer, promising to solve all human problems in time; nor is man capable of transcending the limitations of his being...
Cousins in Space? Kuiper does not think that the earth's satellite, the moon, was formed in this way. The earth-moon pair, he thinks, is a double planet, formed when the planets were formed. The pockmarks on the moon's face were made by material raining down from the double planet's common disc. The earth must have had similar marks, originally, he thinks, but since it was big enough to hold an atmosphere, the marks were erased long ago by wind-and-water erosion...
...comic element in "The Sea Gull" lies in the irony of the young writer's rejection by his mother, his sweetheart, and his public; all three of whom take to their hearts an older writer the young regards as a hack. "The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to these who feel," is Herace Walpole's useful reminder...
...think one can observe the same type of blinkered reasoning in the orthodox pragmatic argument for aid to Tito, as outlined above, admitting from the beginning that the move is political. Adherents to this view think in terms of immediate political prospects in Yugoslavia, and by extension bring into the picture both nearby Iron Curtain countries and Western European communists. Essentially they are trying to reduce the complex issue to a simple, individual case that can be solved upon consideration of a few elementary facts. Just as the people who believe he aid is non-political fail...