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Principal Eliphalet ("Elephant") Pearson learned them just that when he opened the school with 13 boys shortly before George Washington marched out of Valley Forge. A hefty Harvardman, Tyrant Pearson ruled by rod and God. His awed charges, including Josiah Quincy, 6, a future Harvard president, paid $10 a year and toiled from dawn to dusk. On the school seal, Paul Revere engraved Finis Origine Pendet, a Calvinistic commercial meaning: "One's end depends on one's origin." More hopefully, Phillips took it to mean: "Well begun is half done." George Washington thought so well of the school...
Leary conceives erternal behavior as games, involving roles, rules, rituals, goals, values, and language. External happiness, he says, depends on playing these games successfully. In playing, the mind rules the cortex like a tyrant. (Sunday evening he referred specifically to the mid-brain as the censoring agent.) Internal happiness, however, he considers strictly non-game; it is equivalent to the brain without the mind's control--"physiological freedom...
...rambunctious elephant, the pet of a ruthless Turkish vizier of a Bosnian town. The vizier is seldom seen; instead his elephant takes his place in public, inspiring all the fear, doing all the damage that the vizier normally would. Andric's implied moral: when man is a tyrant, he may as well be a beast...
...prison near Istanbul, in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, but the prison is obviously a modem police state in miniature. Guilty and innocent alike are cast into this prison where all standards have disappeared. Its chief warden is a masterpiece of characterization, both repellent and sympathetic, a tyrant trapped by fate as his victims are trapped...
There, while keeping a tyrant's control of the parent paper, he founded the Paris Herald. Typically, the sheet was eccentric (for some reason, Bennett was amused by a letter written by an "old Philadelphia lady" who wanted to know how to change centigrade degrees to Fahrenheit; the letter ran, without explanation, in every issue until Bennett died 18 years later). Typically also, under his editorship, the Herald's Paris edition became one of the best papers on the Continent...