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...some freshman still felt they needed more time to decide, and said they might change their decisions in the fall. One student who asked not to be identified said, "To me, this is just waiting through the summer till I decide what I really want to do." He added. "I just finished a year of experiences at Harvard and I'd like three months to mull it over...
...interrelated that one cannot substitute an abstractable web of explicit beliefs for the whole cloth of our concrete everyday practice." Marianne Moore saw the web her own way: "The mind is an enchanting thing,/ is an enchanted thing/ like the glaze on a/ katydid-wing/ subdivided by sun/ till the nettings are legion,/ Like Gieseking playing Scarlatti." In short, human intelligence is too intricate to be replicated. When a computer can smile at an enemy, cheat at cards and pray in church all in the same day, then, perhaps, man will know his like. Until then, no machine can touch...
...record the unspoken questionings of the People; America Was Promises urged the same People to demand their rights ("Listen! Brothers! . . ./ Companions of leaves: of the sun"). These symphonic musings inspired Edmund Wilson to malicious parody: "And the questions and/ Questions/ questioning What am I? O/ What shall I/ remember? . . ./ Till the hearer cried:/ 'If only MacLeish could remember if only could...
...recently released report on federal financial aid could be mistaken for one of his frequent open letters. Thirty pages are a leisurely and articulate analysts of a complex issue, devoid of the concrete proposals that could spell alarm or comprehensive policy change. The dangerous surprise doesn't come till about halfway through...
...till your whole body glistens...