Word: written
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only to learn things but also to find out who you are. People talk about such things at commencement time. By now, the Class of 1969 has heard quite a few times who it is (as if a whole class could be a "who"). We are probably the most written about class in history. The media and our parents and various other old people have been telling us who we are for a long time--or they ask us, "Who are you anyway?" "Why are you kids doing what you are doing?" The question is a horror...
...Kahn points Shakespeare's "Fantastic innovation," and asserts that production today should similarly "surprise, delight and astonish our audience." But Shakespeare was not a revolutionary. His plays impressed the Globe Theatre's audiences not because they were particularly avant-garde but simply because they generally were better than those written by anybody else. Kahn also states that one must be "true to the play," but it seems to me that, in this production, he has done quite the opposite...
From his desk, Hofer looks up, pointed across his office, and said, "That is my favorite thing here. It is a cast from the British Museum head of Hypnos, which is Graeco-Roman, and underneath it is written in Greek what was over the Alexandrian Library: 'A healing place for the soul.' That just gives me peace when I feel ... Well, wouldn't that give you peace...
...need to tell you why I left the radicals--politics is always a consideration of marginal differences, of weighing gains and losses, of technicalities. At least, so I now say myself, having then determined not to act. Besides, radical politics on campus have been written to death...
...safer for tyranny. The tragic peacemaking efforts of Georges Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson are an oft-told story. Yet their means and ends have rarely been presented in so finely detailed and lucid a book as this. The work is all the more remarkable because it was written by a 38-year-old part-time historian who doubles as an executive of a floor-materials company in Elizabeth, N.J. His only previous book: Dare Call It Treason, about the revolt of the French army after Verdun...