If American has points of inferiority to English, they are merely matters of degree; if the Americans are, as Oliver Wendell Holme...s said in 1858, "the Romans of the modern world--the great assimilating people," the English are only to an exceedingly limited degree its Greeks. They are tarred too much with the same brush of pragmatism, democracy, industrialism, and materialism for deep cleavage. Even America is not wholly democratic culturally; there are remarkable enclaves of aristocratic culture in the cosmopolitan and tradition-bound society of the Eastern seaboard, whose members look east toward Europe far more than they look west towards the heartland of Americanism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light;... In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your Beauty, ripe, and calm, and fresh, As Eastern Summers are,... Must now, forsaking Time and Flesh, Add light to some small Star.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to... the ground while trying to board the six o'clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening,... The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.... The United States does not... concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God's existence, God's ...justice, God's love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble exp...lanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets ... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the ...greater part of the Reich. Over all this territory, which with the Soviet Union included, would be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »