Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next summer I went to Russia with Dough and some other fellows who eventually came to Harvard. We were calm and detached and liberal. We thought that the Russians had a very low standard of living, but, alas, they did not realize it. They had made great strides in half a century, yes. But at what cost? That is the way we talked then. Dough and I wanted to be foreign service officers. Harvard would be good for that, we thought...
Preposterous as it now sounds, this arch-enemy of jargon and cant almost became an attorney. Perhaps he thought the law would satisfy those obscurantist tendencies which later found their gratification in an extensive collection of the least-known 18th century American writings. Until the spring of his senior year. 1949, he was set to be a lawyer; then he changed his mind, turned down a place at the Law School, and went off to study history at Columbia. Back at Harvard a year later, still desulting about, he fell under the spell of Perry Miller. For a decade that...
...five dollar bill and I tell you that I feel like a time you thought there never could...
...forever, if I thought that it ever could...
...cover photo doesn't show you how far Expedition has moved from bluegrass (Did Homer and Jethro ever pose on motorcycles, passing a joint?) just listen to a couple of cuts. The lyrics put a far greater emphasis on the entire thought-world than one finds in C&W, and a better understanding of poetics...