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...children will soon be old enough to weep for the cruelty of men to men. Soon they will be ready to fight any man who seeks dominion over the lives of others. But they will not be taking sides-white or black-unless we idiots tell them there are sides to take...
Buddha. Shudder at the spectacle of human sacrifice! Thrill to the dance of the temptresses! Cringe as the prince's eyes are poked out! Weep as the princess commits harakiri! Marvel at the miracle of the thousand lamps! Tremble while the mammoth, four-armed idol splits asunder! Do a double take when Buddha says: "Do not overdo anything...
California's Democratic Governor Pat Brown is a most amiable fellow. But he can weep from every pore when things begin to go wrong-and so far in his state's 1963 legislative year, very little has gone right...
...occasion was one of those times when strong men are permitted to weep. "I thank all the people who have been so fine to me-all my friends," said Boston Celtics' Basketball Star Bob Cousy, 34, moved to tears by a crowd of 3,000 at a testimonial banquet in Worcester, Mass. Retiring for a coaching job at Boston College, the Cooze firmly numbered among his friends another athlete-Paul Hornung, 27, Green Bay halfback indefinitely suspended from the National Football League for betting on Packers games. Hornung-present at Cousy's insistence -shakily recalled his own furlough...
...example is the James-Lange theory of the emotions. In presenting this theory James superbly displayed those gifts that brought him renown as a psychologist: novelty, lucidity, effective argumentation. "Commonsense says, we loose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike. The hypothesis there to be defended says that this order of sequence is incorrect, that the one mental state is not immediately induced by the other, that the bodily manifestations must first be interposed between, and that the more rational statement is that...