In the capsule biography by which most of the people knew one another, I was understood to be an Air Force pilot whose family was ...wealthy and lived in the East, and I even added the detail that I had a broken marriage and drank to get over it.... I sometimes believed what I said and tried to take the cure in the very real sun of Desert D'Or with its cactus, its mountain, and the bright green foliage of its love and its money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a so...mething in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situated... and the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I remember when I was first assigned to jets. I said to the colonel, "Colonel, I joined this man's air force to fly an airplane. B...ut nobody's gonna hitch me to no Roman candle."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the face of the modern crisis, both poets turn their eyes to the past and actualize history: every epoch is this epoch. But Eli...ot actually desires to return and reinstall Christ; Pound uses the past as another form of the future. Having lost the center of his world, he throws himself into every adventure. Unlike Eliot, he is a reactionary, not a conservative. In fact, Pound has never ceased to be a North American and he is the legitimate descendent of Whitman, this is, he is a son of utopia.... Pound's erudition is a banquet after an expedition of conquest; Eliot's, the search for a standard that will give meaning to history, stability to movement. Pound accumulates quotations with the heroic air of one who robs graves; Eliot orders them as if he were hauling in the relics of a shipwreck. Pound's work is a journey that perhaps leads us nowhere; Eliot's, a search for the ancestral home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain... coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; ...one must know when to blend force with a manoeuver, a blow with an agreement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »