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...intact but not looking as if it had been well-read here where society is not free and education is not general. Thought the GE committee or someone might be interested to know how far the Harvard influence extends. I dusted the book off, closed it respectfully, and with fond memory of Hartz's GE course on Democracy and Totalitarianism, replaced it on a shelf...
...also talked a little about music: "I am very fond of light opera ... I can't say that I can go to a 'high-hat' opera . . . and enjoy it all. But there is usually one aria . . . that is worth listening to. Most of the rest of opera music is boring...
...lunched often with Walter L. Dunham, the former RFC director, whom he was said to have influenced? Yes, but "there was nothing at all unusual in it. I was genuinely fond of him. He thought he could learn something from...
...usually looked like an unmade bed and stalked about with a fond pack of dogs at his heels. He was Washington's second-in-command, but the commander in chief never warmed to his quirky personality. It was Washington who stormed up to Lee at the battle of Monmouth, accused him of making an unnecessary, disorderly, and shameful retreat.† and made the charge substantially stick in a court-martial. Thirty months after the Adams accolade, Lee was suspended from the army and later died in disgrace...
...World in 1755 as a 23-year-old lieutenant in the French and Indian War. It captivated him: "[English] rivers and lakes (even the greatest) are to these, little rivulets and brooks." Its inhabitants were equally winning. Philadelphia ladies, he found, were "extremely pretty and most passionately fond of red coats, which is for us a most fortunate piece of absurdity...