We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are alr...eady taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense sy...llables.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He began therefore to invest the fortress of my heart by a circumvallation of distant bows and respectful looks; he then entrenche...d his forces in the deep caution of never uttering an unguarded word or syllable. His designs being yet covered, he played off from several quarters a large battery of compliments. But here he found a repulse from the enemy by an absolute rejection of such fulsome praise, and this forced him back again close into his former trenches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and... children brought them down shuddering mouth-wracked and battered bleak of brain and drained of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The treatment of the incident of the assault upon the sailors of the Baltimore is so conciliatory and friendly that I am of the op...inion that there is a good prospect that the differences growing out of that serious affair can now be adjusted upon terms satisfactory to this Government by the usual methods and without special powers from Congress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten str...ucture in which these glories are encased and encrusted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent a...ssault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was not long since in a company where I wot not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed ...of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This teaching is not practical in the sense in which the New Testament is. It is not always sound sense in practice. The Brahman n...ever proposes courageously to assault evil, but patiently to starve it out. His active faculties are paralyzed by the idea of caste, of impassable limits of destiny and the tyranny of time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From an old ruined fort on Staten Island, I have loved to watch all day some vessel whose name I had read in the morning through t...he telegraph glass, when she first came upon the coast, and her hull heaved up and glistened in the sun, from the moment when the pilot and most adventurous news-boats met her, past the Hook, and up the narrow channel of the wide bay, till she was boarded by the health officer, and took her station at quarantine, or held on her unquestioned course to the wharves of New York. It was interesting, too, to watch the less adventurous newsman, who made his assault as the vessel swept through the Narrows, defying plague and quarantine law, and, fastening his little cockboat to her huge side, clambered up and disappeared in the cabin. And then I could imagine what momentous news was being imparted by the captain, which no American ear had ever heard, that Asia, Africa, Europe--were all sunk; for which at length he pays the price, and is seen descending the ship's side with his bundle of newspapers,... to dispose of his wares to the highest bidder, and we shall ere long read something startling,--"By the latest arrival,"M"by the good ship--M."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »