Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...titled Literature and Psychology, and a seminar on James. "Professor Guerard gives a course on the writing of fiction, you know, but I don't write fiction myself," he says. "However, this spring I will give a course in the writing of biography and criticism. A lot of careful thought goes into biographical writing. For instance, how much psychology should one use? I thought I might have the class try writing a composite biography of some minor literary figure. Each student would be assigned two chapters and we would see how it turned...
...James was concerned (at a time when Americans weren't) about what place Americans should take in the civilized world. It's curious that at that time people should have thought he was highly critical of Americans. Actually, Americans carry off the moral victories in his novels...
...typical message was that of Justice Douglas, who observed, "The full impact of your contributions to American legal thought during a period of nearly 70 years of scholarly service has not yet been felt...
Macmillan is reported to have been pressing hard to rush Eisenhower and De Gaulle into a conference with Khrushchev at the earliest possible date. His pressure has surprised American officials who had thought he would attach less urgency to a summit meeting once the British elections were over...
...America's pet hobbies is "pledging." The average American gives little thought to signing a pledge, and so this process of extracting promises has become a much abused one. The pledge-making mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and Sunday School but has found its way into prospective legislation in the form of a bill now before the New York Assembly which proposes that public school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate communistic and other extreme propaganda threatening our present system of government. Harvard...