Word: self
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until now, the HAA has been budgeted on a self-sufficient basis. In the past three years, this has resulted in a $326,000 deficit. Now, according to the AP story, the University's "athletics are going to be put on a footing similar to its educational activities. That, Bingham hopes, will in time ease up the overpowering pressure for big games, big victories, and big gate receipts...
...twelve years he regained objectivity but preferred to continue playing the emperor. If I understood correctly, the degree of his lucidity varies from time to time: Pirandello wanted to show that we are different people under different circumstances. He made further use of this situation for ironical comments on self-deception...
Perhaps he is best known for his fiery interpretations of Stravinsky, but he showed remarkable self-restraint in the two Mozart pieces. Both were played with almost painful simplicity, endearing Bernstein in the hearts of the many to whom Koussevitzky's racy Mozart was heresy. In the B-flat Concerto, which he conducted from the piano, Bernstein achieved another tour de force for which he is famous, pacing the Orchestra with everything except his hands. Scowling, grimacing, heaving his shoulders like an asthmatic, he managed to wind himself up into every sort of contortion, but the effect was still only...
...clam, lamenting scorn--subtly cognizant of the fact that the poet himself is a part of the world he is criticizing. "Lady, the night has got us by the heart--words turn to ice in my dry throat praying for a land without a prayer." Throughout Merton expresses him self simply and sublimely--"the night is falling and the dark steals all the blood from the scarred west." Religious poetry is as its best when it is unrefined emotion, when the poet does not try to explain theological riddles. Merton has reproduced a poetic experience without contaminating the purity...
...even harder to draw the line between the effects attributable to a Harvard education and the mere continuation of personality traits which have formed in a person before college. When we look at a Harvard graduate, how are we to know--even with the help of self-evaluation--whether he is a "whole man" because of Harvard or in spite...