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...continue. One of the first readers was Congressman Philip Greeley. Reading it on the train to Washington, he realized that his tears were attracting the attention of the other passengers. At last he left the train, rented a hotel room in Springfield, Mass., where he could read and weep to his heart's content...
Time for Another Look. Though no classicist like Sir Richard, Sonners is dismayed by much of modern education. He loathes overcrowding ("I'd weep permanently if I thought Oxford were to be kept at its present size of around 6,000"). He detests vocational specialization: "When universities take up brewing and call it 'industrial fermentation,' it is time to take another look." He has misgivings about psychology, which has recently been made an Honors school at Oxford, snorts that "economics isn't a science, but a political engine. Many economists simply fit their science to their...
...seems, came to Gide so easily as tears. The Journals drip from crying jags brought on by Gide's reading, his music, visits to art shows ("visit to the Louvre . . . wept in front of the Rudes . . . in the theater the mere name of Agamemnon is enough. I weep torrents...
...never rattled little Alice McCarthy. She had dates when she was a girl, but her serious attention she reserved for her singing career. When that fizzled after a few broadcasts over Chicago's radio stations, Alice did not weep. In 1925, she joined the Chicago police force. By last week she had become a veteran and one of the city's best-known cops...
...life of the stately house half a mile down Brattle Street is virtually over, no one should weep, for it has been an abnormally long life. Built in 1759 by a young Royalist, the house was confiscated by the American government fifteen years later, when the owner, after a life of unhappy splendor, fled to the besieged British in Boston. It wasn't long before the nucleus of the American Navy moved in, a bunch of fishermen from Marblehead. They messed the place up pretty badly, and Washington, deciding to move in from his undesirable quarters in Wadsworth House...