Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...larger scale, though, the persistent growth of euphemism in a language represents a danger to thought and action, since its fundamental intent is to deceive. As Linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf has pointed out, the structure of a given language determines, in part, how the society that speaks it views reality. If "substandard housing" makes rotting slums appear more livable or inevitable to some people, then their view of American cities has been distorted and their ability to assess the significance of poverty has been reduced. Perhaps the most chilling example of euphemism's destructive power took place in Hitler...
...Cambridge is now undergoing a period of agonizing change, a period which will almost certainly create a city substantially different from today's or that of twenty years ago. The universities are usually only indirectly responsible for the changes, yet since they are the bodies most in the public view, criticism has been concentrated on them...
...head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get-this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classic and a romantic, but then, so may Dryden, depending on your point of view... In some respects, this statement is unquestionable true, but in others..." On through the night...
...matter of fact Harvard offers you less of a welcome than a challenge survey. It greets you with its great libraries and sharp-headed teachers first, offering you the knowledge of its snow-covered Yard and its view of the River in spring a little later. In a world of unknown, however, these few "givens" should be more than enough...
Kennaway's view of life itself is crabbed: the cost of living like this, he suggests, is dying like that. Within its own well-blinkered range, the view is coldly accurate, a gloomy midpoint assessment by a gifted 40-year-old Scots writer (one of whose notable early accomplishments was Tunes of Glory). The gloom is deepened by the reader's knowledge that Kennaway died in an automobile accident late last year, not long after finishing this sixth novel...