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...think of your troubles when the canopy opens, wither. I can guarantee that. You'll be too overjoyed, as I was when I heard the soft "pop" and felt the firm tug of the chute...
...discusses the tug-of-war between teaching and research, the need of many professors to augment their income through outside jobs, and the magnetic hold of the profession on its practitioners. Its main appeal, Eble feels, is that "it deals with human beings at their richest point: with girls who bounce instead of sag, with boys between the cloddishness of fifteen and the bullishness of twenty-five." And he makes some prophecies about the effect of the increased demand for teachers in the coming decade...
Five Finger Exercise is one long parental tug of war in which the children serve as the rope, and the incessant strife almost kills the family's life...
Five Finger Exercise is one long parental tug of war, in which the children serve as the rope, and the incessant strife almost kills the family's life...
...inner struggle over Germany's conscience, Buber believes, is part of a climactic, worldwide tug of war between the forces of "human" man and "antihuman" man that transcends political boundaries. "The arming for the final battle of the Homo humanus against the Homo contrahumanus started in the depth" of the heart, Buber said years ago. "The battlefront is split into as many individual fronts as there are nations, and those who stand at one of the individual fronts do not know the others. Dawn still shrouds the struggle, but on its outcome depends whether the human race will eventually...