Word: unpleasanter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THERE are three choices. One is to let the powers of the President be exercised in fact, though not in name, by the White House staff, by some of the more powerful members of the Cabinet, the military chieftains and the Vice President. The second is to resign. This would...
Discussion turned to the old days, and the novelist reflected on the unpleasant social distinctions of the pre-House era, when the clubs had some importance in Harvard life.
All the outgoing diffusion of the personality must be quenched, as must all memories, pleasant and unpleasant, all attachments to the external, sensory world. Instead, the disciple must plunge into a kind of mental darkness. "And do not believe that because I call it a darkness or a cloud that...
Marblehead goes to disastrous lengths to prove the point. He whips up a Hollywood-type talent search for "the typical Navyman," whom he personally selects, sight unseen, because he likes the fellow's name: Farragut Jones. It represents the finest in Navy tradition, but from the first word uttered...
The nature of that revelation is the theme of The Court and the Castle, 16 literary essays based on Rebecca West's Dwight Harrington Terry Foundation lectures at Yale. Author West agrees with Turgenev, who said: "There is not one of us but recognizes in the prince . . . our own...