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...spite of its hackneyed theme and its essentially unoriginal main character, Short Pleasures manages to be an entertaining book. Miss Bernay's breezy, racy style and several of her other character portrayals suggest that she is capable of writing a much better book than the framework of Short Pleasures permits...
Such piercing introspection is Aiken's greatest talent, as well as the framework on which he hangs his personal Weltanschauung. For he believes that the real nature of human existence manifests itself not in overt actions but in painful silences...
Having twenty minutes to speak, I used ten, by the clock in Burr, to explain the right (Jeffersonian) policy for an educational community, namely to teach responsibility by giving freedom in a framework of wise counsel and affectionate support. I then spent one minute on my "alarming frankness," namely, the insoluble problems of being a husband and father without allowing marriage to become an inhibiting jail--(by the way, I wish young Brackman would bring up three good children of his own before lecturing his elders on the responsibilities of fatherhood); and the rough go of being bisexual...
...warm Thursday night, thousands of Harvard men turn out for an Architecture Riot to protest the design of the tenth House. The vibrations of so many people running through the streets cause the giant steel framework of the Sert pyramid to topple into the Charles...
...emotionalism of Negro religion, the shouting and the stamping. I didn't understand it and it embarrassed me." At Morehouse, King searched for "some intellectual basis for a social philosophy." He read and reread Thoreau's essay, Civil Disobedience, concluded that the ministry was the only framework in which he could properly position his growing ideas on social protest...